Even in new computer without net connection vanilla vim is good enough for editing. When sit in an alien computer with vanilla vim. At first I put these lines i

Even in new computer without net connection vanilla vim is good enough for editing. When sit in an alien computer with vanilla vim. At first I put these lines in .vimrc set nocp set hidden set ts=2 set sw=2 set autoindent set incsearch filetype on filetype plugin on map <C-J> <C-W>j map <C-K> <C-W>k map <C-l> <C-W>l map <C-h> <C-W>h For buffer management, combination of :ls, :b and :b# does the job well enough, compiling command-t plugin isn't necessary :). For listing of files there is :sexplore . For code browsing there is plain old ctags. There you go, almost 90% of environment created. Other things like surround or snipets support would be better. But I don't use them most of the time :).