Audit Vim Plugins (mid-2015)

[vinsonchuong]

For document editing

• lervag/vimtex

  For editing large files

• LargeFile (#1506) - disables features for increased performance

  For Global Search/Replace

• skwp/greplace.vim
• gabesoft/vim-ags
• wincent/ferret

  For Git/GitHub

• idanarye/vim-merginal - addon for fugitive for handling merging branches and rebasing
• jaxbot/github-issues.vim - interfaces for GitHub issues API
• codegram/vim-codereview - manage GitHub pull requests
• tpope/vim-rhubarb - autocomplete GitHub issue numbers
• int3/vim-extradite - browsing git history

  For Project File Navigation and Tooling

• tpope/vim-projectionist
• malkomalko/projections.vim - goto related files (e.g. test and implementation)
• tpope/vim-rails
• tpope/vim-dotenv - per project settings based on .env and Procfile
• DataWraith/auto_mkdir

  For Code Analysis

• marijnh/tern_for_vim - JavaScript
• Chiel92/vim-autoformat - use external programs, better than indent ftplugin?
• calebsmith/vim-lambdify - conceal function keyword
• koalaman/spellcheck - linting for shell scripts
• rsense/rsense - Ruby
• Quramy/vison - JSON Schema
• Example with TernJS

  For Code Refactoring

• jbgutierrez/vim-partial - for extracting template partials
• pelodelfuego/vim-swoop - search replace with context
• ecomba/vim-ruby-refactoring
• AndrewRadev/switch.vim - pattern-based toggling
• mvolkmann/vim-js-arrow-function - convert between function and arrow

  For Brackets and Delimited/Structured Text

• amirh/HTML-AutoCloseTag
• wellle/targets.vim - enhances ([' text objects and adds separator text objects
• guns/vim-sexp
• tpope/vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people
• terryma/vim-expand-region - press v multiple times to select bigger region
• tpope/vim-jdaddy - text objects for JSON

  For External Tools

• benmills/vimux - tmux
• tpope/vim-tbone - tmux paste buffer
• yssl/VIntSearch - search using ctags and grep

  For Adding New Motions

• justinmk/vim-sneak - 2 character searching

  For Visualizing Metadata

jeetsukumaran/vim-markology - visualize marks

For Debugging

• mattboehm/vim-unstack - navigate stack traces

  For automatically running code

• jaxbot/browserlink.vim

  For interacting with ctags

• majutsushi/tagbar

  For specific languages

• tpope/vim-sleuth - automatically set indentation settings

  For quickly inserting text

• Wolfy87/vim-expand

  For Haskell

• begriffs/haskell-vim-now

  For executing code from a buffer

• diepm/vim-rest-console
• jpalardy/vim-slime

[vinsonchuong]

Also, add syntax checking and highlighting for the below languages. Any new plugins that are not yet part of vim-polyglot or syntastic should be submitted as pull requests.

ES2016+

• othree/yajs.vim
• eslint-defaults

bats

• markcornick/vim-bats

Ruby

• Rubocop

[vinsonchuong]

See if tpope/vim-flagship can replace vim-airline.

[vinsonchuong]

See if Vim's out-of-the-box completion features are good enough; if so, remove Valloric/YouCompleteMe.

[vinsonchuong]

Investigate smartindent and cinwords for smarter auto-indentation.

[vinsonchuong]

http://vimawesome.com/ is a good place to look for populare plugins.

[vinsonchuong]

http://vimrcfu.com/ is a good place to find code snippets.

[vinsonchuong]

Looks like a lot of tooling is starting to be built for the Language Server Protocol.

• Asynchronous Lint Engine