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For a very long time I didn't use anything besides just plain vim, 2 biggest things to add to your vim use is undodir and YouCompleteMe. Crazy that I didn't have either of these for so long, undodir I wish was part of the default.

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I made persistent_undo as part of Google Summer of Code in 2011. Very grateful I got to do that (and for the mentorship of Bram Moolenaar), and I'm so glad that this became part of your essential workflow. I also can't live without it at this point.

Thank you so much! It is very much appreciated and I don’t think I have any cases where I wish it was better. It works exactly like I expect and does what it says on the box.

Thank you for making it, I can't imagine my life without it.

I switched from vim (with YouCompleteMe) to VSCode about 4 years ago and I've recently discovered the intellisense engine for VSCode is now available as a vim plugin: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim.

This makes me realize I really need to update my .vimrc and some plugins.

I've been toting around the same .vimrc for like 6 or 7 years and there are so many better plugins now.

Vim has been probably the most profitable tool I've ever picked up. Or maybe git. But I think Vim.

I've been using vim for 20+ years and have never been into extensive customizations. That was part of the attraction, because I had to deal with a lot of remote servers, often off-shore. With out-of-the box vi/vim I could get the most done with the least number of keystrokes. Someone made a comment above about IDE editors with vim emulation. Wish every IDE would do that. RStudio for example is not exactly vim, but I find it close enough. If only Spyder and Jupyter would that.

I've used these plugins to get vim bindings in Juypter Notebook / Lab.

Jupyter Notebook: https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding Jupyter Lab: https://github.com/jwkvam/jupyterlab-vim

Thank you sooo much!!!

To add to this, vim quickfix-reflector ( https://github.com/stefandtw/quickfix-reflector.vim) was life-changing for me.

It lets you modify and save code from the quickfix buffer, so when you search for something and it shows up in the qf, you can do a find replace / edit / etc. This is especially great for mass refactoring / renaming.

Woah, that's awesome. I use ^f for ack.vim, so combining that with quickfix-reflector sounds superb. Thank you!

By "undodir" are you referring to the "vim-undodir-tree" plugin? Because the "persistent_undo" feature that is built into Vim/Neovim (normally) is what I think of when I hear "undodir".

New(ISH) vim user here. I couldn't figure out how to install YouCompleteMe the other day, but I had not trouble with coc.

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