Top 23 vim-plugin Open-Source Projects

1. coc.nvim

   1 322 25,159 9.3 TypeScript

   Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

   

2. SaaSHub

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3. nerdtree

   2 78 20,075 4.5 Vim Script

   A tree explorer plugin for vim.

   

   Project mention: Disabling telemetry in ByteDance's VSCode fork increases data sent to its server | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-27

4. vim-airline

   3 59 17,953 7.7 Vim Script

   lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air

   

5. ale

   4 135 13,998 8.5 Vim Script

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

   

   Project mention: Vim + Markdown = Writer's Heaven | dev.to | 2026-03-25

   The ale plugin (Asynchronous Lint Engine) allows auto-formatting and linting in vim, running external tools asynchronously so they don't block your editing. With the configuration above, you can run :ALEFix to format the current file, or add the following to have it format on save:

6. TabNine

   5 10 10,786 0.0 Shell

   AI Code Completions

   

   Project mention: 2025's Top 5 AI Coding Tools: Balancing Efficiency and Stability | dev.to | 2025-08-30

   Website: tabnine.com Key Differentiators: Lightweight, supports 20+ IDEs, affordable.

7. vimwiki

   6 114 9,466 4.2 Vim Script

   Personal Wiki for Vim

   

8. vim-easymotion

   7 49 7,739 0.0 Vim Script

   Vim motions on speed!

   

9. lightline.vim

   8 24 6,869 3.3 Vim Script

   A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim

   

10. vimtex

    9 96 6,280 8.3 TeX

    VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files.

    

11. vim-startify

    10 38 5,393 3.9 Vim Script

    :link: The fancy start screen for Vim.

    

12. nerdcommenter

    11 13 5,004 2.7 Vim Script

    Vim plugin for intensely nerdy commenting powers

    

13. indent-blankline.nvim

    12 74 4,948 2.4 Lua

    Indent guides for Neovim

    

    Project mention: Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-13

    - Rainbow parenthesis

    Too much noise. And the example is great demonstration for it. It's better than gray parenthesis, but a lot of worse than properly structured and indented sections.

    - Context Highlighting

    Love it. But once again - too much noise for text colors. Just highlight line numbers of nesting level your cursor is in. Indent-blankline[1] plugin for neovim does this (with use of treesitter), but it highlights the virtual indentation lines.

    [1] https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim

    - Import highlighting

    I think it's impractical, because imports are often grouped together at the start of file, but symbols are all over the place and you'd only see highlight on very short files.

    LSP "goto definition" is already a better fit here, a bit more immediate solution is to display namespace/import path in status bar. No idea if there's any plugins for this, but should be easy to hack together in an hour.

    - Argument Highlighting

    Kinda useful, but also gets less useful for longer functions. IMHO doesn't worth it to add whole extra color to a limited palette or it might turn into in-cohesive mess rather quickly.

    - Type Highlighting

    Could be taken one step further and highlight atomic types in lighter shade and more complex types (not only lists) in darker shade.

    nit: example being Python feels a bit out of place here

    - Exception Highlighting

    LSP virtual text

14. LanguageClient-neovim

    13 12 3,553 2.3 Rust

    Language Server Protocol (LSP) support for vim and neovim.

    

15. vim-sneak

    14 37 3,514 6.3 Vim Script

    The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:

    

16. nvim-treesitter-context

    15 33 3,195 7.3 Janet

    Show code context

    

17. dashboard-nvim

    16 23 2,841 6.9 Lua

    vim dashboard

    

18. vim-dispatch

    17 26 2,735 5.3 Vim Script

    dispatch.vim: Asynchronous build and test dispatcher

    

19. vim-signify

    18 13 2,725 3.7 Vim Script

    :heavy_plus_sign: Show a diff using Vim its sign column.

    

20. barbar.nvim

    19 38 2,709 4.4 Lua

    The neovim tabline plugin.

    

21. neomake

    20 4 2,675 0.0 Vim Script

    Asynchronous linting and make framework for Neovim/Vim

    

22. targets.vim

    21 48 2,637 2.4 Vim Script

    Vim plugin that provides additional text objects

    

23. vimux

    22 7 2,275 5.9 Vim Script

    easily interact with tmux from vim

    

24. vim-table-mode

    23 19 2,234 5.9 Vim Script

    VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.

    

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