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Top 23 Vim Open-Source Projects
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PDE (Personalized Development Environment): Neovim
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InfluxDB
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fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder that makes navigating through files, commands, and processes much easier. It's kind of like ctrl + P on vscode, but for your terminal
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awesome-cheatsheets
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
ID: i10 Tags: Code, Cheatsheets Description: A collection of awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks, and development tools. GitHub Link | Website Link
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Official site of VIM VIM git repo Here you can download Or refer some YouTube videos
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Project mention: Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-18
I’m not sure. Command based editing opens more doors than just optimizing keystrokes. There are edits I somewhat regularly do with Vim macros that save me minutes of typing and cognitive burden of examining refactor locations. It’s probably not going to be make or break, but I do think it’s significant in a p > 0.05 sense.
I imagine Vim is only just a local optima too. There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware that I haven’t been able to fairly evaluate yet (not in the boring corp approved software list).
[0]: https://helix-editor.com/
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Some examples are vim-plug, vundle, or, lazy.nvim.
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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NvChad
Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
Project mention: 🚀 How to Integrate Commitizen (`cz`) into Your NvChad Setup for Better Git Commits | dev.to | 2025-04-10If you're using NvChad, a modern and minimal Neovim configuration, integrating cz into your workflow can drastically improve your Git hygiene without ever leaving the comfort of your editor.
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coc.nvim
Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.
Neovim comes with a client. For Vim you will need to install one, such as CoC, LanguageClient-neovim, or vim-lsp.
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This article is dedicated to a terminal-based file manager yazi that is super mega cool, but it’s not available in any of Debian’s repositories - not in Stable, not in Testing, not even in Unstable.
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spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I use https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ with `cd` on quit if I need to scan around manually. Otherwise, zoxide.
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👉 Airline theme Airline for Neovim.
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As a Vim enthusiast, I always wanted to replicate my daily workflow based on keymappings and completely avoid using the mouse. I missed the functionality offered by tools like ranger or lf in Vifm, but I didn't want to learn a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts. I watched several YouTube videos trying to recreate this setup, but none quite hit the mark. The project that inspired this work didn't fully meet its intended functionality.
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powerline
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
Project mention: How I manage multiple kubernetes clusters w/ kubectx & kubens | dev.to | 2024-10-01I love powerline over traditional PS1 (aka command prompt). It's beautiful and highly customizable.
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Learn-Vim
Learning Vim and Vimscript doesn't have to be hard. This is the guide that you're looking for 📖
Project mention: Unlock Your Editing Superpowers with "Learn Vim (the Smart Way)" 🚀 | dev.to | 2024-10-06So, what are you waiting for? Dive into the world of "Learn Vim (the Smart Way)" and unlock your editing superpowers! You can find the guide at: https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim 🙌
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Vim projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | neovim | 88,702 |
| 2 | fzf | 69,469 |
| 3 | awesome-cheatsheets | 42,225 |
| 4 | Vim | 37,987 |
| 5 | helix | 36,953 |
| 6 | lapce | 35,127 |
| 7 | vim-plug | 34,760 |
| 8 | NvChad | 25,948 |
| 9 | YouCompleteMe | 25,597 |
| 10 | coc.nvim | 24,799 |
| 11 | yazi | 24,241 |
| 12 | spacemacs | 23,928 |
| 13 | doomemacs | 20,255 |
| 14 | nnn | 19,984 |
| 15 | nerdtree | 19,858 |
| 16 | LunarVim | 18,775 |
| 17 | vim-airline | 17,876 |
| 18 | vim-galore | 17,129 |
| 19 | vim-go | 16,114 |
| 20 | ranger | 16,096 |
| 21 | powerline | 14,514 |
| 22 | Vim | 14,454 |
| 23 | Learn-Vim | 14,291 |
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