awesome-vim VS emmet-vim

What is driving you to use vim instead of vscode? My sense is that the culture for vim is to have a sense of ownership and understanding of the editor. Therefore there is an expectation of being willing to discover and configure it on your own. With that said, you should check out something like https://github.com/akrawchyk/awesome-vim found by googling awesome vim.

I can not say enough about the wonderful repository, Awesome Vim.

If you're going to be doing a lot of HTML, I really love the emmet-vim plugin. In this case, it fills in a little more than you may have wanted ( tags get an automatic href="" attribute), but you can, for instance, put in (li>b)*2 (that is, two tags, each with a inside an

If you're talking about this plugin, you don't need to be in visual mode, just type your abbreviation and press ctrl-y, like this:

Does anyone have a link to their repository with emmet(https://github.com/mattn/emmet-vim) manually installed?

I installed emmet using packer.nvim. The plugin seemed to be installed correctly without any errors.

I tried emmet-vim, but it's only working in html files

It sounds like vim-emmet would be right up your alley. If you don't use a Vim package manager, install it by git cloneing it into a folder named ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/ on Unix/macOS or $HOME\vimfiles\pack\plugins\start on Windows (create it beforehand if it doesn't exist), then after you've :EmmetInstalled it into your buffer, you can use the , mapping after the ! to write the Emmet expansion for the HTML boilerplate; Emmet expansion is a very useful but quite complex feature and you can read more on it in [https://docs.emmet.io/](Emmet's documentation).