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Ask HN: What are your favorite vim plugins?

14 points by emilepetrone 15y ago

doubaokun 15y ago
vim wiki and calander
flabbergasted 15y ago
python pep8 checker: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3160 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3160
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ynoclo 15y ago
I want to use vim as my IDE, so my favorite plugins are the ones that integrate the functionality you'd expect in a development environment. - 'NERD_tree': provides a hierarchical directory view in a sidebar (much like a project view); open a file by hitting enter, or by double-clicking in MacVim - 'a': toggle quickly between a source file and its header - 'cscope_maps': search through my cscope-indexed source files and system headers - 'fuf' and 'l9' (a.k.a. FuzzyFinder): quick way to open files, auto-completing as you type - 'tagbar': displays navigable list of functions/methods in a sidebar (better than the old 'taglist' plugin)
zefhous 15y ago
Tim Pope has a bunch of awesome plugins: https://github.com/tpope https://github.com/tpope They are all so great, but I will list a bunch that you should check out anyway: fugitive, unimpaired, pathogen, ragtag, surround, endwise, repeat.
- wimplash 15y ago
  I will enthusiastically second tpope's plug-ins. I've been doing some html work and found that the ragtag and surround plugins were helping me a lot.
kjell 15y ago
Yankring: if you were ever confused when deleting/yanking/putting (was that phrase in "0, "1, "2?) yanking is beyond helpful. Syntastic: calls out syntax errors for lots of different languages. Command-T: I've had some trouble getting this compiled and keeping it working when updating vim. But it's the how I open new buffers. Solarized: is a nice :color. I use the dark. Pathogen: seems to be the way to manage plugins. I started vim from textmate ~a month ago using Janus. This week I changed from Janus to pathogen and it's a lot nicer now. (all of tpope's stuff is great as zefhous us mentioned.)
sathishmanohar 15y ago
Nerd Tree - For Directory and File Browsing, You can also create and delete files right from nerdtree using "m" key. Super Useful MRU - Most Recently Used Files in a split Tcomment - Fast and Easy commenting Snipmate - Textmate like snippets, eg: type div press tab, it'll auto complete to HTML Div Element. Sparkup - It makes HTML Coding Super Fast, Very useful for creating Nested Tags. Surround - To Quickly Add delete, Braces, parenthesis, quotes etc. Relative Line Numbers - To toggle relative line number mode through ctrl+l Colorschemes I like: Jellybeans and Solarized
- wimplash 15y ago
  I've been using NERDTree for a bit now but didn't know about the 'm' key. Thanks!

14 points by emilepetrone 15y ago

vim wiki and calander

python pep8 checker: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3160 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3160

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ynoclo 15y ago

I want to use vim as my IDE, so my favorite plugins are the ones that integrate the functionality you'd expect in a development environment. - 'NERD_tree': provides a hierarchical directory view in a sidebar (much like a project view); open a file by hitting enter, or by double-clicking in MacVim - 'a': toggle quickly between a source file and its header - 'cscope_maps': search through my cscope-indexed source files and system headers - 'fuf' and 'l9' (a.k.a. FuzzyFinder): quick way to open files, auto-completing as you type - 'tagbar': displays navigable list of functions/methods in a sidebar (better than the old 'taglist' plugin)

zefhous 15y ago

Tim Pope has a bunch of awesome plugins: https://github.com/tpope https://github.com/tpope They are all so great, but I will list a bunch that you should check out anyway: fugitive, unimpaired, pathogen, ragtag, surround, endwise, repeat.

wimplash 15y ago
I will enthusiastically second tpope's plug-ins. I've been doing some html work and found that the ragtag and surround plugins were helping me a lot.

kjell 15y ago

Yankring: if you were ever confused when deleting/yanking/putting (was that phrase in "0, "1, "2?) yanking is beyond helpful. Syntastic: calls out syntax errors for lots of different languages. Command-T: I've had some trouble getting this compiled and keeping it working when updating vim. But it's the how I open new buffers. Solarized: is a nice :color. I use the dark. Pathogen: seems to be the way to manage plugins. I started vim from textmate ~a month ago using Janus. This week I changed from Janus to pathogen and it's a lot nicer now. (all of tpope's stuff is great as zefhous us mentioned.)

sathishmanohar 15y ago

Nerd Tree - For Directory and File Browsing, You can also create and delete files right from nerdtree using "m" key. Super Useful MRU - Most Recently Used Files in a split Tcomment - Fast and Easy commenting Snipmate - Textmate like snippets, eg: type div press tab, it'll auto complete to HTML Div Element. Sparkup - It makes HTML Coding Super Fast, Very useful for creating Nested Tags. Surround - To Quickly Add delete, Braces, parenthesis, quotes etc. Relative Line Numbers - To toggle relative line number mode through ctrl+l Colorschemes I like: Jellybeans and Solarized

wimplash 15y ago
I've been using NERDTree for a bit now but didn't know about the 'm' key. Thanks!