vim-plug

I'm relatively new to Vim (~4 months). I used the "learning by doing" approach by forcing myself to use Vim to write C and Python at work. I had two main reasons for learning Vim: (1) Vim is everywhere, so it must be worth it to learn the basics at least; and (2) modal editing felt easier on my wrists than the standard mouse + shortcuts approach I ended up using in other IDEs. Here is my advice: 1. Start with only a theme in your .vimrc, so no plugins or non-standard key bindings. 2. Use Vimtutor (or any other tutorial) to learn the basics: normal vs. insert mode, movement, manipulation, yank/paste (+ clipboard), splits, buffers, and searching. 3. As you write code, you will find yourself wanting to know how to do X. This is where Google and a simple "cheatsheet" file come in. Once you find out how to do X via Google, add an entry to your

The Emacs package list has a description field on the right, a shortcut for more info (?) and after it's installed you've got C-h m and often info pages (C-h i). What's wrong with that? Vim has no unified plugin structure, there are several plugin manager packages (often installed via git clone). I personally use vim-plug[i] which is more on the minimal side, but there are others like pathogen or vundle. No real centralized plugin repository like melpa, I don't think one of the plugin managers I've used had some kind of common install-screen. You mostly enter the github address and execute the package update vimscript. I've seen more Emacs info packages than :help docs, but in most cases I'm browsing the githup README.md/.org anyways. [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

Here are some I find invaluable: * FZF. Perhaps the best fuzzy finder for Vim https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/ * ALE. Asynchronous Linting Engine, totally awesome. https://github.com/w0rp/ale * Polyglot. A "best of" language pack. https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot * Plug. IMHO the best plugin manager going https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug. * Fugitive. The best git wrapper there is https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive * vim-test. A plugin that helps you run tests from inside of Vim. https://github.com/janko-m/vim-test Outside of that, switch to NeoVim if you haven't already (https://neovim.io/). Or give Oni a chance, it looks really promising (https://www.onivim.io/).

I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the italicised tests below, the first has a prepended asterisk, the second has an appended one. * Test Test* Test Test Test * I think I just started using daggers because U+2020 was super easy to remember and to avoid Markdown issues and the habit has stuck. You don't by any chance use Vim, do you? I use the Unicode plugin[0] by Christian Brabandt in Vim to quickly search for Unicode characters. You can use vim-plug[1][2] by Junegunn Choi, for instance, to install it and keep it updated or just install it manually yourself. call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim' call plug#end() Then within vim type :UnicodeSearch dagger to search for d