In your opinion, what are the absolute essential vim plugins and vimrc configuration?
2 18 Jul 2015 07:23 by u/minionslave
I have recently picked up Vim and I am loving it. It makes me feel like the hackers you see in the movies. But I feel like it's a little too bare-bones. I would like to know about the best plugins and configurations that would make my life easier. Thanks
- Sorry if my post is out of topic.
4 comments
0 u/NameIsNotDavid 18 Jul 2015 07:35
Expand tabs to spaces, set soft tabstop to 4. Indent with tab or >>. Vim's pretty powerful out of the box.
0 u/Majestic12 18 Jul 2015 16:53
Janus is nice, it is actually a combination of a lot of plugins, most notably tab completion with SuperTab and Syntastic for code checking, and a lot of customization.
You can use Janus directly, or simply look at the plugins and conf it contains to find cool stuff to use yourself.
A little bit of advice I give to everyone interested in vim : once you're confortable with the basic stuff, learn to use macros. Trust me, it's awesome.
0 u/Psycoth 18 Jul 2015 18:20
Ive been using the awesome version of amix's Ultimate vimrc. just pull from git, run the install script and you're good to go.
0 u/glUniform4fv 21 Jul 2015 15:38