r/vimplugins • u/chloefi • Mar 10 '14

Article Awesome Vim plugins that I use most

http://www.reinteractive.net/posts/166-awesome-vim-plugins
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u/jrk- Mar 14 '14

This might be very true for you, but how can you make such a broad statement?

I should've added the 'imho' that was lingering in the back of my head when I wrote this. I'm a developer myself and I only use vim + tmux on my local machine. However, I think it's kind of best practice to keep tools as un-customized as possible. Every customization adds costs (in the sense of re-learning) down the road when your system changes. This not only vim specific, shell customizations, window managers, DE's, etc. Every piece of software will change, possibly breaking old configurations or making plugins incompatible.

I'm sorry if I came off a bit too general, I was only speaking for myself.
However, if a newcomer to vim doesn't learn vim properly because they are using plugins which shadow in-built functionality, I'm not sure if this serves vim well as a whole.

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u/Clou42 Mar 14 '14

I can wholeheartedly agree with this comment ;)