So far, everyone who's recommended Janus to me or asked me to write about it turned out to have a pretty poor understanding of vi-like editors in general.įor perspective, I see the oh-my-zsh project much the same way. When a new user has a better command of vi basics and gets a better grasp on the actual limits of Vim's built-in behaviour, and has invested some time in crafting a configuration that suits them, personally, very well for their work and workflow they have, then they're in a much better position to select plugins judiciously and don't have to use a configuration they don't actually understand. I generally recommend against Janus because I think there's much more value in learning Vim's core behaviour thoroughly, which is best done by starting with a relatively minimal or even empty. I would miss these plugins if I could never use them again, but when I use a different editor, I rarely find myself missing plugins, but I find myself missing core Vim very badly.Īrticle author here. Nice to keep these up-to-date, but unless your Vim build is old, you'll already have pretty recent versions of these. Adding them as plugins simply allows you to pull the very latest versions of them. Not important, but pleasant.įinally, there are the updated language configurations - the things that provide language-specific syntax highlighting, indention, and so on. Next are purely aesthetic ones, like colorschemes. But this makes using ack slightly more convenient. I am, of course, perfectly capable of running ack in my terminal. It lets me run ack from within Vim, and provides the ability to jump directly to files in the result list.
Then, there are the ones that are convenience plugins. These plugins add meaningful, widely-applicable functionality to the editor. I consider the "fuzzy finder" plugins to be in this group (Command-T is the one I use). This is the smallest group of plugins by far. The first group are the ones that add truly valuable core functionality to Vim. The plugins I use could be broken up into groups. A good set of plugins is simply for augmenting Vim and/or tailoring it to your desired workflow. The power of Vim is, first and foremost, Vim.
I agree with you, and my Vim setup is loaded with plugins.
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