Ask HN: What are your favorite vim plugins?

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by emilepetrone • 15 years ago

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doubaokun• 15 years ago

vim wiki and calander

flabbergasted• 15 years ago

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

ynoclo• 15 years 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• 15 years ago

Tim Pope has a bunch of awesome plugins:

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.

wimplash2• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years 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

wimplash2• 15 years ago

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

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