vim VS vim-plug

Nord.

vim-plug, nord-vim, lightline

Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

[0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

[1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

[2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

Looks like Nord

There are no third-party themes in the docs. Most screenshots in Nord Vim's docs show how the theme looks like by default and if this is not the case on your system than the chance it high that your local setup is broken. Also please note that Neovim is currently not a supported application (yet) and the theme is built for "Vanilla" Vim.

There are plenty of other amazing plugins. Also, have fun looking through colorschemes to make vim look pretty! Check out https://vimcolorschemes.com/ or https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes. I use eva01 (https://github.com/hachy/eva01.vim). Others I've liked are nord (https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), orbital (https://github.com/fcpg/vim-orbital), and gotham (https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham).

Recently, I've taken up focusing my early mornings on writing and I'm currently using the Nord theme.

copy your favourite theme (let's say https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), give it new name, change the colors.

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.