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Re:VIM Plugins That Greatly Increase my Productivity by joelhooks on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @06:16PM (#5598337)
I went ahead and noted your issues in the article. I agree with your premise.

I don't know if perhaps experienced VIM users forget what it is like to start "from scratch" with the editor, but it is a lot. When I write this stuff, I am most certainly ignorant. It would be very interesting to me to see more information about why these plugins might not be needed, but I've done a lot of reading, and this is _the first time_ I've ever seen `netrw`.

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Re:VIM Plugins That Greatly Increase my Productivity by johncoltrane on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @03:43AM (#5600341)
I certainly don't count as an "experienced VIM user" but I can talk from experience.

I started using it about 3 years ago so I distinctly remember how hard it was to find reliable information on the net and above all how misguided my attempt to turn Vim into a TextMate clone was. It took me a few months of tinkering before I changed my approach and decided to drop my 40+ plugins and the 1000+ lines long ~/.vimrc I didn't really understand and start from scratch.

That was the best move I could make and now I'm able to use bare Vim and my highly customized Vim with more or less the same efficiency: while I use a bunch of plugins, I'm not dependent and that's very important for me.

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