Re:Vim 8.0 released
by _kst_ on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:49PM
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I haven't used nvi in several years (mostly because, unlike nvi, vim has become universally available on the systems I use), but it's not minimalist. nvi has a number of features that the original vi does not. Perl integration and infinite undo are two examples.
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Re:Vim 8.0 released
by JoshTriplett on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:02PM
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nvi definitely provides more features than the original vi, just not nearly as much as vim. And it doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of plugin/package developers around it, either.
Is there a popularity dashboard of plugins that one could check to see what features vim users are enjoying that I've been living without?
http://vimawesome.com/ has a list of Vim plugins sorted by their popularity, measured by presence in dotfiles repos on GitHub.
For a conservative list of "essential plugins", see https://www.vi-improved.org/plugins/
"surround" and "targets" are indispensable for me.