A Few Vim Plugins That Have Impressed Me Recently

So I've moved back to Vim from Emacs, and having spent a few days back in Vim, I've been looking at a few different plugins. I thought I would share a few plugins that I think are worthy of consideration.

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[KevinBReynolds]

More great content from the master. Thank you Derek for all your work to show us stuff we can actually use. Don't put the color down as just bling. You get use to that and you'll find you don't even need to look to know what's going on. Your peripheral vision picks it up for you. Color is a great thing to incorporate into your working environment. Thanks again Derek. Appreciated!

[johnbernier]

If you're interested in something similar to lightline and maybe even leaner, there is also vim-crystalline which is simple and highly customizable.

[PascalThalmann]

i am glad i found your channel. i use linux since 20 years private, professional since 15 years. but i see here so much stuff i never looked for, cool stuff. thx for sharing!

[rmdashrfv]

Hey man, I just wanted to say that I'm glad you're sticking with things, I saw you went through a bit of a hard time with that person at work and the accusation, but I love this channel, so definitely fuck retail! Also anytime you upload something Vim related, I'm clicking immediately!

[norcal]

The real power of vimwiki comes through when you use its built in ability to export your vimwiki to static html pages. You can make your self a nice personal wiki that you can view and interact with inside your web browser. Its kinda like a lightweight static site generator. I live in vimwiki daily.

[humpaul]

I used vimwiki for about 6 years. Very useful plugin. Got 17Mb of text in vimwiki directory. Keep it in a private git repo. Your video made me start thinking to change all pages into *.md format. After all, one can always use pandoc to get htmls or pdfs.

[bikeaday]

Drink every time he says "vifm"

[JDStone]

Because of DT and Luke Smith, I tried nnn and ranger. Because of Brodie Robertson, I tried lf. Now I am trying vifm because of DT. I have come full circle.

[kronikpillow]

@DistroTube the vifm.vim plugin is installed by default with vifm on Arch, it's located in /usr/share/doc/vifm/vim ... it's just not in the rtp, it used to be autoloaded with vim's rtp but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore (not sure why) :)

[fiordiconio]

Seeing your video in the home was a joy!
The thing that it's about vim makes it even better

[humpaul]

As for vifm, I recently switched to ranger (cool bulkrename feature made me do this). Looks like there is vim plugin for ranger too. Great news!

[HtopSkills]

I just shared this video to a friend because I think your audio system might interest him

[Aronymous]

Only 1 plugin by the master of vim-plugins Tim Pope? Shame on you!
Here are some recommendations:
'tpope/vim-repeat' - so you can use the dot command for plugin-mappings (integrates with the other two plugins listed here and vim-surround for example)
'tpope/vim-commentary' - for quickly commenting/uncommenting lines, paragraphs, visual selections etc.
'tpope/vim-unimpaired' - a bunch of sensible mappings that make your life easier (and might as well be part of vim by default), e.g. toggling ignorecase, hlsearch, and many more


They are all very lightweight and unobtrusive, so no harm in just adding them in my opinion.

[creztoe]

For anyone looking for a sane way to store/version control your wiki... use Gitlab
Why Gitlab as opposed to Github?
1. Gitlab allows use of `[[_TOC_]]` expansion to automatically insert a table of contents
2. Gitlab allows nested directory structures and provides a built in navigation sidebar. Github just dumps all md files into a single directory for navigation

[alaindevos]

Please make more videos about plugins. There is much to learn.

[willsi]

Thx for these, bro! I love lightline, too.

[josecuevas]

Thanks for the lightline recommendation. I recently quit on using powerline since it makes vim startup slow

[jasonkena]

Context.vim is a miracle, although there are some visual artifacts due to bugs in Neovim.

[maxarendorff]

Seeing these vim plugins makes me remember why I switched to Emacs with Evil. Emacs plugins are just way more powerful and less clunky to implement compared to vim plugins.