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I made a plugin [1] similar to this which offers more options when you press the Tab key. For instance, if you're typing a file path, you get Ctrl-X Ctrl-f completion (vim's…

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aquova·Jun 30, 2018

People seem to swear by NerdTree, but I personally don't see the purpose of it. Sure it may be nice to see your file structure sometimes, but having a terminal open or even just the actual folder window open solves that. Everything else can be done with the built-in :Ex command, which lets you navigate to open files, create new files, rename, delete, mostly everything you want. As for other plug-ins, there are a few I would recommend (can you tell I'm a Tim Pope fan?): - vim-commentary: Gives bindings for commenting out code quickly: https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary - vim-surround: Easily surround selected text with symbols: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround - vim-unimpared: Adds bindings for some misc. commands, like enabling relative line numbers and spellcheck: https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired - vim-repeat: Allows man

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y more commands to be repeated with . : https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat - VimCompletesMe: A much more bare-bones auto-completion tool than YouCompleteMe, hitting tab gives you matches from your previously typed text. It's also all in vimscript so it's much easier to install and manage: https://github.com/ajh17/VimCompletesMe - Pathogen: A plug-in manager, if you can call it that. It simply re-adjusts the file paths so you can centralize your plugin directory. Some plug-in managers will auto-update, but I never liked that, just run git pull if you wish to update a plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen There are some other cosmetic ones I like as well, like airline, and vim-highlightyank, but that's a personal preference.

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Watabou·Mar 26, 2017Recommendation phrase

I made a plugin [1] similar to this which offers more options when you press the Tab key. For instance, if you're typing a file path, you get Ctrl-X Ctrl-f completion (vim's file path completion) instead of the regular keyword completion. And if you type a period (configurable) and press Tab in filetypes like C, Python, Ruby, etc, you get omni completion (vim's semi-intelligent completion, which offers methods on classes, looks in ctags files, etc). The great thing is that I was able to do this in less than 100 lines of code, and I love using it myself every day at work. Just goes to show that Vim has a pretty good completion system already and you don't need to use some bloated plugin system like YouCompleteMe or Neocomplete. [1]: https://github.com/ajh17/VimCompletesMe

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Watabou·Mar 23, 2014Submission

Show HN: VimCompletesMe, my first Vim plugin for Tab Completion

I made this because I was using SuperTab and noticed that it uses a lot more code when I wanted something really simple: for Vim to intelligently choose what to autocomplete for me. Maybe it has more features but to me, it tried to do too much in a single plugin. So my goal here was to made a dead-simple, minimalistic Tab completion plugin. It does this with less than 60 lines of source code, compared to around 800 for Supertab. I hope you like it as much as I do.

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