vim-awesome VS vimwiki

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.

vimwiki

Lol, yes :D There are tons of markdown/wiki/journal plugins for Vim... https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/ is what I've been using, but I'm looking for a better solution that's more modular (and solves certain problems with vimwiki, so I don't recommend vimwiki itself)... possibly https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim with other plugins. There are a variety of org-mode clones and zettlekesten (which I think is a ludicrous name for a wiki software) plugins.

If you just want it to work out of the box, Vimwiki uses conceal to format links in markdown, as well as formatting bold, etc.

Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins:

- https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

- https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git

- https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git

- https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux!

Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.

what's with vimwiki?

The entire Bullet Journal method can be implemented using VimWiki.

If you just want a knowledge base in Vim, have you tried Vimwiki[1]?

I use Vimwiki in vim and Obsidian outside of Vim -- they can be configured to use exactly the same pile of Markdown files as a vault/wiki.

[1] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Well, Zettelkasten looks to me much like wiki. And standard wiki solution for vim is https://vimwiki.github.io/ and it should work quite well for you. Also, it is all plain text files so conversion should not be that difficult.

- Vim - VimWiki plugin - VimZettle plugin