vim-awesome VS vim-plug

Vim is infinitely customizable. While Vscode allows you to change the app’s color scheme, install plugins, and change a few app settings, Vim offers you complete control over the editor’s experience. You have thousands of plugins to choose from. You can completely remap any keybinding and create new shortcuts for tasks in your daily workflow. And giving you more power as a developer, you can completely reprogram or automate your Vim experience with the built-in Vimscript language or Lua for Neovim.

This is a pretty good website for browsing vim plugins: https://vimawesome.com

VimAwesome is a website with a curated list of vim plugins. You can search by category or type for something that fits your needs. I highly recommend browsing the list just to see what there is.

I recently moved to Mac/OSX from Linux and have struggled with my vim setup. I found some installations bundles that attempt to set everything up for me, so I used one of those, iirc it is this one: https://vimawesome.com/ . However, I have some issues with it. While coding, I often want to jump around code blocks and I do so by taking advantage of the '{}' characters (curly braces) used for code blocks in the languages I use (javascript and C++). In vi, the '%' character can be used to jump between the matching curly brace. However, in my current setup, this does not work. How can I find how to make the '%' feature work again?

That is probably a couple of hours worth of work getting the plugins set up. Then you're in the wild west looking for things that are interesting. I suggest you stay as minimal as you can as long as you can, but there is plenty to find.

Find the desireable plug-ins from VIM Awesome this is one of the best places to find vim and neovim plugins. For this tutorial we will add couple of plug-ins to make our neovim look good and work like an ide.

Unfortunately not maintained anymore, but it updates automatically so is still somewhat useful.

Are you aware of https://vimawesome.com/ Makes it pretty easy to find plugins.

Emacs is a good software for LaTeX along with its plugin AUCTeX but you don't need to switch to Emacs since you already are a Vim user. I would recommend to install VimTex (make sure it is NOT VimLatex) using any package manager, e.g. VimPlug.

recommend first setting up a proper plugin manager : https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

I am not sure if I understand this right, but the way I update my plugins in Vim is using a plugin manager called vim-plug and using update command. I just need to run the command in Bash, which runs vim, executes the update command and exits. It's part of my updateall routine set as an alias.

vim-plug, nord-vim, lightline

" This file contains common and basic plugins too essential not to include " See https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial " Auto install vim-plug (if not already installed) if empty(glob('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall endif " Run PlugInstall if there are missing plugins autocmd VimEnter * if len(filter(values(g:plugs), '!isdirectory(v:val.dir)')) \| PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC \| endif " enable Vim-Plug: call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged') " Install/update plugins Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' " Better C/C++ syntax highlighting; Plug 'https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight' call plug#end() "---------- Basic configs ---------------------------------------------------- autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox " Enable transparent background let g:gruvbox_transparent_bg = 1

But there are alternative plugin systems. My favorite is https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug . I guess you should be able to install it with the instructions for "Unix, Linux", as MacOS would fall into that category. Make sure you install the right one Vim or Neo Vim, depending on which one you use.

Not sure if that's what you're asking but VimPlug can load plugins on-demand, for example only when a certain file type is loaded.

Remember, this is only will work for Windows 10 in your powershell [ for more info, check out this github link : https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug ]

Lua-wrapped plugin manager based on vim-plug or packer at your choice.