I don't know. I think the stock vim is pretty good, and loads of power users tend more towards the 'no plugins' than the 'all the plugins' end of the spectrum.

I don't know. I think the stock vim is pretty good, and loads of power users tend more towards the 'no plugins' than the 'all the plugins' end of the spectrum. I started with a much bigger load of plugins than I use now, and I don't think I'm unusual in that. The stock settings and workflows, once you understand them, are usually better. The only exception is really for frills - like, a plugin that helps with composing regexes, or language-specific IDE stuff, or a pretty documentation browser. Not to mention, it's really very quick to get all your normal plugins set up. I have a git repo that I just clone.