10 Vim plugins I can’t live without (and how to install them?)

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  • vundle

    Vundle, the plug-in manager for Vim

  • Vundle

  • vim-plug

    :hibiscus: Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager

  • Vim-Plug, and it's the method we are going to the use for the rest of this article.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • vim-startify

    :link: The fancy start screen for Vim.

  • Startify

  • lightline.vim

    A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim

  • Lightline

  • cheat.sh-vim

    A vim plugin to access cheat.sh sheets

  • Cheat.sh

  • vim-surround

    surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease

  • Vim-Surround

  • vim-polyglot

    A solid language pack for Vim.

  • Vim-Polyglot

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • emmet-vim

    emmet for vim: http://emmet.io/

  • Emmet-Vim

  • vim-gitgutter

    A Vim plugin which shows git diff markers in the sign column and stages/previews/undoes hunks and partial hunks.

  • Vim-Gitgutter

  • vim-commentary

    commentary.vim: comment stuff out

  • Vim-Commentary

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