My answer is in this excellent series I read a while ago: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/ https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as

My answer is in this excellent series I read a while ago: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/ https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/ Which, admittedly, is essentially the same as the other answers you got, but that's how I've been working for three years, since I decided to use vim exclusively. At the start, I was really tempted to install plugins, but ultimately I decided not to. Both to practice with the terminal (which has been immeasurably beneficial) and to make it as easy as possible to switch computers at the drop of a hat without losing productivity: just install vim and I'm good to go (and often not even that is required since vim comes preinstalled often enough).