Even without any plugins Vim has useful stuff you might need in a pinch. Eg: Column editing using visual mode. Syntax highlighting Tree-based undo featu

Even without any plugins Vim has useful stuff you might need in a pinch. Eg: Column editing using visual mode. Syntax highlighting Tree-based undo features. Fuzzy file finding in a project path. Spell checking Support for c tags Line numbers Mouse support File navigation On top of that you might want to learn vi for systems built with busybox. Or tools that use readline like repls and sql clients.