vim-cool VS vim-sensible

Compare vim-cool vs vim-sensible and see what are their differences.

vim-cool

A very simple plugin that makes hlsearch more useful. (by romainl)

vim-sensible

sensible.vim: Defaults everyone can agree on (by tpope)
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vim-cool vim-sensible
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2.0 0.0
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vim-cool

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-cool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

vim-sensible

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-sensible. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    That’s a good question. The built in tutorial is actually really good, you can launch it with “vimtutor” on the command line. It doesn’t give you everything, but its instructions and text to try things out on in the editor itself, which I find a good way to learn. It isn’t particularly programming focused either.

    For getting used to the motions especially https://vim-adventures.com can be a fun way, in its game format.

    For getting started I’d say don’t worry about plugins much, but get https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible at least so the defaults meant for vi don’t get in the way. The only other thing you might want is a format syntax if your preferred note syntax isn’t highlighted well by default or something. Polyglot can be good to stave that off but really I’d say learn on a really lean config, and get used to using :help or similar. It’s the best way to learn the parts that work everywhere.

  • Share NO-PLUGIN Configs!
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Dec 2023
    it's modified from tpope's https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible, and https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore#tips-1.
  • The Vim features that make me a Vim user instead of a Vi user
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2023
    I didn't realise vim Vs vi purist was a thing.

    I'm aware that for a while vim has had some backwards compatibility setting that people recommended turning off to get more modern defaults.

    And that Tim Pope had a plugin that took you one step beyond that:

    https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible

    > Think of sensible.vim as one step above 'nocompatible' mode: a universal set of defaults that (hopefully) everyone can agree on.

    And that neovim took the opportunity to make an updated set of defaults:

    https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-defaults

  • From vscode to vim
    8 projects | /r/vim | 8 Feb 2023
    tpope/vim-sensible, because the Vim defaults aren't for everyone.
  • mini.basics - Common configuration presets for options/mappings/autocommands
    14 projects | /r/neovim | 29 Jan 2023
    A while back I did a public Neovim options survey (here are the results). One of the goals was to gather a commonly used option values to create a "crowd-sourced" moderate version of tpope/vim-sensible. Well, this is it.
  • How I set up Vim for writing LaTex, Python, C and C++?
    4 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jan 2023
    opps.. forgot to mention timpopes : https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible settings :D
  • Show HN: Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2023
    You don’t want any modern conveniences? Not even stuff from here[0]?

    [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible/blob/master/plugin/sen...

  • How do you turn off the yellow highlighting after your done with the search?
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Jan 2023
    If you use vim-sensible, which you should, you can reset the highlight with ctrl+l.
  • .vimrc
    2 projects | /r/vim | 25 Nov 2022
    Check out sensible.vim for lots of settings you might want to turn on.
  • Neovim built-in options survey needs your contribution
    1 project | /r/neovim | 22 Nov 2022
    What I plan to do with results: - The summary of results will be released in some way, shape, or form after survey is closed (at least two weeks from now when there is a 24 hours without new entries). It will be announced in this sub. - Possibly use the most commonly set non-default settings to power a Neovim variant, crowd-sourced version of tpope/vim-sensible.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-cool and vim-sensible you can also consider the following projects:

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

lightline.vim - A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim

vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim

goyo.vim - :tulip: Distraction-free writing in Vim

firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.

ale - Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support

novim-mode - Plugin to make Vim behave more like a 'normal' editor

vimrc - Basic vim configuration for your .vimrc

golden-ratio - Automatic resizing of Vim windows to the golden ratio

vim-easy-align - :sunflower: A Vim alignment plugin

vim-fakeclip - Vim plugin: Provide pseudo "clipboard" registers

vim-plug - :hibiscus: Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager