Are you still a Vim user? These plugins power you

Kirubakaran
4 min readJun 14, 2024

If you’re still a vim user and not interested in IDE based code editors, then this post may be useful to you.

Essential Vim Plugins for Enhanced Productivity

  1. Vundle:

Official Page: https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim

Use Case: Easily install the vim-airline plugin by adding Plugin 'vim-airline/vim-airline' to your .vimrc file, then running :PluginInstall within Vim.

Example Command: After installing Vundle, use :PluginList to see all installed plugins and :PluginUpdate to keep them up to date.

2. NerdTree:

Official Page: https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree

Use Case: Quickly open the file src/main.py in your project by navigating to it in NerdTree's sidebar and pressing Enter.

Example Command: :NERDTreeToggle to open/close NerdTree or <Leader>n (if you set a custom mapping).

3. fzf:

Official Page: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Use Case: Find the file README.md anywhere in your project by typing <Leader>f and then part of the filename. fzf will fuzzy-match it, letting you open it quickly.

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Kirubakaran

Software Engineer expertise on C, C++, Golang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes.