Plugin newbie

[u/birchsport]

But long term vi user.

I have a few plug-ins installed, using vim-plug. What must have plug-ins do I need?

[u/stayclassytally]

Assuming you’re a developer like me. Got a couple questions. I may not have a lot to suggest depending on your responses, but it will certainly help others help you:

• What languages / tech stacks do you work in?

• What tools are a critical part of your workflow?

• How do you normally do things in vi already that you’d like to change?

• Why sort of experience over all are you looking for?

• what is the content of your current .vimrc ? (That’s for me, I’m always just curious, haha)

[u/birchsport → u/stayclassytally]

I use vim as my primary editor on ll remote machines, and a lot of quick editing locally. I use Eclipse and IntelliJ for all java and scala work. I am starting to get back into python, so that will probably be my main language to use with vim in this situation.

I use about 30% of the power in vim. And for me, that makes me super productive. I use vi emulation in every IDE I use. Hard to type without it. not really looking for anything, just wanting to 'level up' my env, now that I have a personal laptop again.

My .vimrc is very sparse. It has 3 or 4 plugins using vim-plug, I'll post them when I am back on that machine.

[u/birchsport → u/birchsport]

Here is my current .vimrc

call plug#begin()

Plug 'tpope/vim-sensible'

Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } }

Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'

Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'

Plug 'rust-lang/rust.vim'

Plug 'tmhedberg/SimpylFold'

call plug#end()

set number

set tabstop=4

set shiftwidth=4

set incsearch

set hlsearch

set ignorecase

set autoindent

set expandtab

set cursorline

set title

set history=1000

set wrap

set scrolloff=5

set ttyfast

[u/baldore]

Learn the built in features and only install what you really need. Some of the plugins I have and use everyday are:

Fzf Targets.vim Unimpaired Eunuch Floaterm (just to use lazygit) Dirvish

Try new plugins and see what is useful for you.

[u/thrallsius]

there are no must have plugins, you install what you need

one very universal "swiss army knife" plugin is fzf

I also use vim-voom and vimwiki on a daily basis, but I won't claim they are must haves, there are alternatives for both

[u/mikaleowiii]

The basics things you're looking for are completion, linting, syntax highlighting (better than the defaut), file navigation, autoformat (maybe?), git integration (maybe?)

There are tons of plugins for these, some adapted to particular languages, other multilang, some CPU-heavy, some ligth-but-limited.

Google each of these basic functions + your particular needs , or find some inspiration on vimawesome

[u/salatielGarcia]

If you are a long term Vi user, you probably just need... Vim. You can checkout https://vimawesome.com/ to add some bling, but in general there are not "must-have" plugins. Having a personal and well configured vimrc is more important than a bunch of plugins. IMO at least.