How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

Published: 05 October 2016
on channel: thoughtbot

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Vim is big; so big that it does some very useful things that are often overlooked. Plugins can buy us a lot of functionality, but they can add a lot of burden in the form of dependency complexity. In this talk, we'll explore some of the tradeoffs we can make between plugins and "vanilla" Vim features that achieve similar results, including:

autocomplete (VimAwesome, YouCompleteMe)
file jumping (FuzzyFinder, Ctrl-P)
visual filesystem navigation (NERDTree)
build integration
snippets

The "slides" and supplemental vimrc are available here: https://github.com/mcantor/no_plugins

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