From 151e706a36e490dfd8de6956c3b27e0e54f7004a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donovan Glover <donovan@dglover.co>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:23:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] vim: Strategically install plugins

Instead of failing silently when the wal colorscheme is not found, we
can take this as a cue to install the necessary vim plugins instead.
---
 vim/.vimrc | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vim/.vimrc b/vim/.vimrc
index 019cef23..2e95672c 100644
--- a/vim/.vimrc
+++ b/vim/.vimrc
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ let plugusr = glob('~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim')
 if empty(plugsys) && empty(plugusr)
   silent !curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
     \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/0.10.0/plug.vim
-  autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC
 endif
 
 call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
@@ -101,8 +100,13 @@ set mouse=a                    " Enable mouse support in (a)ll modes
 " ========= colors =========
 " ==========================
 
-" Set the color scheme to wal, or fail silently if it's not installed
-silent! colorscheme wal
+" Set the color scheme to wal, or install plugins as needed.
+try
+  colorscheme wal
+catch /^Vim\%((\a\+)\)\=:E185/
+  echo "wal was not found. Installing plugins...\n" | PlugInstall --sync
+  echo "Plugins installed! You can now use vim.\n"  | qa
+endtry
 
 " Don't show the separator for vertical splits
 highlight vertsplit ctermfg=0 ctermbg=none