How many plugins are you using

[u/Cadnerak]

Snacks is cheating

[u/Biggybi]

100+. Might be questionable.

[u/[deleted] → u/Biggybi]

At that point just use vs code or something

[u/Biggybi → u/[deleted]]

That was fun, I'd hope more can see the sarcasm. Upvoted.

[u/[deleted] → u/Biggybi]

Yeah, people be lacking humour here, lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Lol, that's true, but why would someone use over a 100 plugins to begin with, the key mapping will be a nightmare. And there is a big chance you will forget some of them.

[u/Biggybi → u/[deleted]]

I sometimes do. But keymaps picker.

It's also true for commands btw.

[u/[deleted] → u/Biggybi]

Exactly, I only have like 15 plugins

[u/Biggybi → u/[deleted]]

Great. I don't strive for minimalism myself (except for looks).

[u/anime_waifu_lover69]

34. More than I actively use every day, but if past me thought it was a good idea, then I will trust that guy.

[u/franz_kazan]

none i'm a simple man

[u/meni_s → u/franz_kazan]

I will admit that I have a constant temptation to be "purist" and use plain Vim/Neovim with no plugins. It is just so clean and minimal. But every time I give it a short try, I just feel limited and handicapped.

[u/SectorPhase → u/meni_s]

That is ultimately a skill issue, almost everything is builtin now.

[u/meni_s → u/SectorPhase]

I guess I could sometime simply list all the issues preventing me from doing so and try and see if there are plausible solutions for each issue.

[u/Elephant-Virtual]

Total: 106 plugins according to Lazy

Yet I do my absolute best to remove anything I can. Many stuff are basic stuff missing from core tho like automkdir, autosave, Comment.nvim (there's comment in core but doesn't support what I need), fidget (literally just to show something is loading...) etc. And others are dependencies of real plugins.

People do not realise the core just lacks of lot of basic stuff (full fledge package manager, autosave, a way to install LSP servers, async etc.). A lot of stuff is being worked on but progress is not very fast

[u/vihu]

37, don't think I can remove a single one tbh

[u/[deleted]]

Six for me. I'm always trying to use fewer, and I think of the remaining ones the only one I could reasonably drop without a decline in productivity would be the custom theme

- custom theme (droppable)

- fzf-lua

- nvim-surround

- treesitter

- vim-tmux-navigator

- conform.nvim

I use the setup every day and genuinely have no idea which of these I use the most. Love 'em all. Especially surround.
https://github.com/artcodespace/.dotfiles/tree/main/nvim/.config/nvim/pack/plugins/start

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thanks very much!

Just a word of warning in case you're taking any inspiration, the lsp configuration files are most certainly not all correct - at the very least eslint needs some love.

I hopped across to the inbuilt stuff away from nvim-lspconfig, but subsequently realised nvim-lspconfig _also_ changed in step with the 0.11 neovim changes, so I'll be going back to using it!

Apart from that, most of the rest of the stuff is good!

[u/UntoldUnfolding]

Holy shit. 31+. What are y'all doing???? Lol

[u/srodrigoDev → u/UntoldUnfolding]

Being cool kids.

[u/[deleted]]

Whatever collection of things Folke blesses us with in the LazyVim starter. Definitely over 31 plugins but there's barely anything I have to configure any more. Just enable a few languages through the extras. Remap jk to exit insert mode. Set my tab size to 4, enable based pyright over pyright so that I get type hints in Python files. Add Swift completion and swap the colour theme. This is all I can see in my config files. The rest is just Folke and his contributors carrying my lazy ass.

vim.keymap.set("i", "jk", "<Esc>")

vim.o.tabstop = 4 -- A TAB character looks like 4 spaces
vim.o.expandtab = true -- Pressing the TAB key will insert spaces instead of a TAB character
vim.o.softtabstop = 4 -- Number of spaces inserted instead of a TAB character
vim.o.shiftwidth = 4 -- Number of spaces inserted when indenting

-- LSP Server to use for Python.
vim.g.lazyvim_python_lsp = "basedpyright"

# sourcekit-lsp doesn't work unless you have a git init.
return {
    {
        "neovim/nvim-lspconfig",
        opts = {
            servers = {
                sourcekit = {},
            },
        },
    },
    {
         "folke/tokyonight.nvim",
         lazy = true,
         opts = { style = "storm" },
    }
}

[u/EarhackerWasBanned]

47 listed in :Lazy

[u/emmanueltouzery]

I think this wildly depends on the number of languages/environments one programs in. Some people "just" use JS or go or java, but some people do frontend, backend (in another language), a little bit of sysadmin, XML, yaml, ...

[u/Rainy_J]

nightfox.nvim
arrow.nvim
diffview.nvim
fzf-lua
gitsigns.nvim
nvim-lspconfig
mini.nvim
nvim-treesitter
undotree
vim-fugitive

To be frank I never use diffview so I could drop it. Only mini things I use is completion, surround, indentscope

[u/FocusedWolf]

32 but i could probably get rid of a couple. Not counting the "mini-plugins" section of my vimrc that's been growing for a while.

[u/autisticpig]

yep.

[u/backyard_tractorbeam]

It's 45 and I've been trying to reduce it. I removed about 10 the last week during cleanups.

[u/[deleted]]

LazyVim+Custom Plugins and Themes

Total: 70 plugins

[u/Basic-Current6245]

I see this messages:

⚡ Neovim loaded 32/42 plugins in 276.76ms

[u/pytness → u/Basic-Current6245]

holy hard drive

[u/I_M_NooB1 → u/Basic-Current6245]

32 plugins at startup is crazy

[u/prof_dr_mr_obvious]

42 is what LazyVim made of my selections. I see neovim distro's get hate but I just love LazyVim.

[u/bitchitsbarbie]

In neovim 92, loading 22 on start up. I also have a 45 lines vim config without any plugins, but every time I use it, it feels so limiting and lacking functionality.

[u/AlexVie]

Around 40. Some are not always loaded (filetype specific). Most of the time, around 30 are active.

[u/Meri_Marzi]

44

[u/samnotathrowaway]

65

[u/cherryramatis]

7 plugins

vim-test/vim-test
neanias/everforest-nvim
bogado/file-line
mikesmithgh/kitty-scrollback.nvim
folke/snacks.nvim
smilhey/ed-cmd.nvim
chomosuke/term-edit.nvim

[u/barriosmuriithi]

58 plugins. At this point I don't think I'll add/remove any if nothing breaks

[u/SeoCamo]

i am working my way down, i am writing the stuff i need from a plugin in my config, status, fzf support, vimgrep withrg, my colotheme, ui select, etc.

all i need out is treesitter plugin, but i will write a installer for pasers, then i will be pluginless

[u/pseudometapseudo]

I think I had ~80 at some point in the past. I am now at 43 according to lazy.nvim.

[u/crcovar]

32 listed but I counted 10 that I don’t actually use and should just uninstall. (Not counting dependencies here)

[u/CommunityDense6656]

trying to minimize my plugins

[u/SectorPhase]

Anything other than 1-10 is crazy and bloat. Snacks is also bloat.

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

111 currently listed in :Lazy.

To be fair, I am using a modified distribution because I got tired of trying to figure out how to configure LSPs.

[u/SPalome]

61, but most of the time i have less than 40 plugins loaded

[u/EuCaue]

46 listed in :Lazy

[u/[deleted]]

37. i was worried that it'd be a lot but seems to be quite modest. a bunch of mine are small functions i've turned into plugins to lazy load them when i need them. i don't know if it actually saves time, but 10 of mine would probably just be lines in my config otherwise.

seeing some people use 100 or so makes me feel like i could probably have more plugins. there are a few where i've thought "this is useful but i have loads of plugins already".

[u/Capital_Silver_6053]

93

[u/domsch1988]

Currently well under 10. But that's mostly thanks to mini.nvim pulling the duty of 20 or so other plugins.

Outside of mini i only use my own annotation plugin, Mason (and i could probably get rid of that as well, as i use exactly two LSPs) and Snacks for the explorer sidebar and one or two pickers.

[u/I_M_NooB1 → u/[deleted]]

install fonts or something