5 Awesome Vim Plugins You May Never Have Heard About
I've been browsing people's dotfiles recently and found some very cool Vim plugins which I've never seen before.
So I thought I need to spread the word.
Buftabline — buffer list that lives in the tabline
You might have heard that Vim users would rather use buffers instead of tabs, which is a more native way to work with files in Vim. To me, it was always a bit hard though, as I usually want to see the files open in my tab-line and switch between them. Buftabline fixes that.
BTW, I use Ctrl + J/K to switch between buffers. When you see the open buffers in a tab-line it's really convenient.
" Navigate tabs
nnoremap <C-j> :bnext<CR>
nnoremap <C-k> :bprev<CR>
Signify — uses the sign column to show file changes
Signify uses the sign column on the left to displays added, modified or removed lines. The closest relative is the Vim-Gitgutter, but I like this one better as it shows how many lines have been changed.
Startify — a fancy start screen
Startify is made by the same author (Marco Hinz from Potsdam). It replaces your start screen with a bit more interesting screen with a citation, recently used files, bookmarks, and sessions. Honestly, after using it for some time I don't find it particularly handy, but I guess it's better than nothing.
And while we are here I also want to mention a F.A.Q. repo on Vim by the same author, it is really good.
GV – A Git Commit Browser
GV.vim is a nice little plugin by Junegunn Choi who you probably know as an author of FZF and Vim-plug. With this plugin, you can type :GV command to see the history of commits in the current repository. Then you can open any commit and see what's been changed in a split view.
Splitjoin – Toggle between single-line and multi-line expressions
Splitjoin allows you to easily split between single-line expressions and multi-line. This I think is especially important in ruby, but this plugin supports many other languages including HTML, JavaScript, Python and others.
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