Vivian De Smedt

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Beginner Plugins

The goal of this paragraph is to list a number of plugins for beginners.

There focus is to:

Plugin-Manager

A plugin manager to install the plugins.

vim-Plug

Colorscheme

Look and feel is so important to me. I need that the editor looks good.

You can use the VimColorSchemes to help you finding a color scheme that fit your taste and that is mature enough.

gruvbox [The most popular one]

solarized

onedark

nord-vim [My Favorite]

Status Line

Look and feel is so important to me. I need that the editor looks good.

LightLine

Wilder

Wilder

Improves the Vim command completion menu:

Shows the completion alternatives in a vertical menu:

Traces

Visualize the result of the substitution while you are typing it. It helps you identifying the mistakes you do when using the regular expression.

Extend the * search to the visual selection. Useful if you need to search text containing spaces or punctuation.

Vim-HighlightedYank

Shortly highlight the text you just yank (copy). It gives you confidence to yank without first selecting.

Fuzzy Finding

Helps you to find file and to switch buffers.