idiomatic-vimrc VS vim-plug

Now a days my vimrc is less than 150 lines, and using Vim is good again. This helped me a lot: https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc

Learning basic movement in vim can take about an hour or more, but setting up your own custom configuration that you are happy with can a month or longer (unless you use a preconfigured vimrc, but then you run into the issue of not understanding how to fix things if they break or not being able to add configuration to scratch your own niche itches). If you have time, and enjoy customization then go for it. Heres some basic guidelines for making your vimrc https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc

idiomatic vimrc by romainl

My suggstion is do whatever you want. It's your config, not ours. Just know that if you stick to vim you'll eventually realize that your own personal workflow likely wont require a lot of plugins. I found https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc useful as a reference when crafting my own config. I think it's a solid write-up.

I also recommend you use nearly blank vimrc. You should roughly understand each line in your vimrc. Use :help and google learn more.

vim-plug

Did you really install VimTeX? Did you run :PlugInstall? Ensure you installed and set up vim-plug correctly (https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug). If VimTeX is installed, it should be installed to '~/.vim/plugged', thus you can open a terminal, then cd ~/.vim/plugged/vimtex and you should find the files there.

If you're determined to use vim for some reason, I'd suggest checking out vim-plug: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug. Quite useful for installing and maintaining all of the plugins that you're going to need to get vim to provide even a subset of the features offered by modern editors.

I encourage you to add plugins to your vim (tip: use vim-plug). Use vimawesome.com for inspiration.

Personally, I like https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

But the plugin manager https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug can also install from offline sources, without accessing Github:

To get started, simply install the plugin using your favorite plugin manager, such as vim-plug or packer.nvim. You can find detailed installation instructions in the README.

Not sure if Vundle did anything particularly fancy, but I'm using vim-plug [0] and have no complaints. It stays out of my way to the point that I had to look at my .vimrc just now to make sure that's what I was using.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

I chose to move on to vim-plug and can report it was a simple switch from Vundle.