How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

What this video covers

A thoughtbot meetup talk by Max Cantor on getting most of what popular plugins provide using only built-in Vim features. It covers autocomplete, file jumping, filesystem navigation, build integration and snippets, with slides and a vimrc available.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN treats it as the canonical talk for the case that vanilla Vim goes a long way and plugin dependencies are a burden.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“The thoughtbot series on vim is great.”

“Here are a couple of handy youtube videos”

“There is also quite a good presentation on YouTube by Max Cantor”