> Bram: I have to admit I don’t use many plugins, other than what is included with the distribution (such as matchit and termdebug). When I need something I tend to either make a quick hack or add it to the Vim base. That’s the luxury of being the creator :-).

This so much. There are amazing plugins out there, but for almost everything I really need, they are overkill. vim comes with so many things included out-of-the-box (just look at netrw), and for the few things I need on top of that, ahcking together a small function bound to a <leader>Key combo which calls an external script is usually enough.