Yes, I'd wager that regular Vim users employ a variety of plugins. Vim is a powerful editor out of the box, but it falls short of many IDE capabilities without

Yes, I'd wager that regular Vim users employ a variety of plugins. Vim is a powerful editor out of the box, but it falls short of many IDE capabilities without leveraging plugins. There are many packages on GitHub that will install and configure Vim for you with a variety of useful plugins and keyboard shortcuts out of the box--so after the installation is complete, you'll have a fully fledged Vim IDE ready to use. One of my favorites is Joe Nelson's setup [0]. It's specific to Haskell development, but even if that's not relevant to your use-case, it's a very sleek demonstration of what Vim can do as an IDE--and a good starting point for customizing your setup (i.e. a very clean .vimrc file for inspiration). I use it basically as-is for my default Vim config and as a full IDE. Check out the keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching buffers, Git integration, and the shortcuts for visualizing project structure & quickly navigating files. [0] https://github.com/begriffs/haskell-vim-now https://github.com/begriffs/haskell-vim-now