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I use the same versioned .vimrc on several machines.

Is there a way of customise that file to enable/disable a plugin based on machine name or something like that?

As example, I have something like that in my .bash_profile:

# common things
...

if [[ $(uname) == "Darwin" ]]
then
     # mac settings
else
     # linux settings
fi
muru
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jherran
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  • I think this is a duplicate: http://vi.stackexchange.com/q/4721/1841 or at least pretty related. The idea is to put a customized vimrc on each machine containing its own plugins. – statox May 06 '16 at 13:14
  • Yes, and I think keeping a separate machine-specific file is the most robust/hassle free way to go. The .vimrc doesn't have to "know" anything about which machine it is on; and, you would never touch your .vimrc file directly ever again, except to update all of them together, avoiding the chance to accidentally get them out of sync. – jpaugh May 07 '16 at 01:27

4 Answers4

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You can access your environment variable and external command from vim, so you can do:

if system('uname') =~ "Darwin"
     echo 'mac'
else
     echo 'other'
endif

Note that you can use =~ instead of == to match the regex instead of the exact string (on my machine, uname gives me a newline).

or

if exists('$TMUX')
  echo 'in tmux'
else
  echo 'not in tmux'
endif
nobe4
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10

In order not to depend on external commands my suggestion would be to use something like the following:

if has('mac')
     echo 'mac'
elseif has('win32') || has('win64')
     echo 'windows'
elseif has('unix')
     echo 'unix/linux'
else
     echo 'something else'
endif
Vitor
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  • This works in MacVim, but not in the version included in macOS, where has('mac') (and has('macunix')) both return 0. (Tested most recently in High Sierra). – Rich Mar 02 '18 at 10:03
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Provided that you (or your system) can export the environmental variables that you need, you can do something like this in your .vimrc (here I use the vim-plug plugin manager as an example, and HOSTNAME is the exported variable you want to check):

filetype off
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
...
if executable('ctags') && $HOSTNAME == 'macintosh'
    Plug 'Shougo/unite-outline'
    Plug 'tsukkee/unite-tag'
    Plug 'ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags'
endif
...
call plug#end()

It's also common to use has() (e.g. has ("gui_running") or has ("python")) to decide to install certain plugins.

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This is not a direct answer to the question, but I think is still a reasonable solution.

The way I handle this is I have several .vimrc files:

  • vimrc-all - All common things
  • vimrc-win - Windows configuration
  • vimrc-linux - Linux configuration
  • vimrc-workMachine - Things specific to my work machine
  • vimrc-homeMachine - Things specific to my home machine

On my workMachine, I create a symlink from ~/.vimrc to ~/dotfiles/vimConfig/vimrc-workMachine.

This is what my vimrc-workMachine looks like: 

" ======================================
" Source general vim config
" ======================================
source ~/dotfiles/vimConfig/vimrc-all.vim
source ~/dotfiles/vimConfig/vimrc-linux.vim

" ======================================
" All other stuff
" ======================================
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