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For those that are whiling to learn vim, I recommend to not install a lot of plugins when you are still learning, you will probably just forget them and it will probably have side effects on your configuration!

But as basic plugins that will provide a great quality of life, I shall recommend those:

Global Search: fzf

Syntax Highlight: nvim-treesitter

LSP: nvim-lspconfig or coc

Dir Nav: nerdtree

Git: vim-fugitive

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I wouldn’t recommend nerdtree. It’s good at what it does, but what it does is not a thing that people should do.

Finding files is much faster with a fuzzy file finder, and displaying the file tree (which I think people typically need way less often) can be done by backgrounding the vim process to drop to the shell, running `tree`, and foregrounding again.

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