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Siddharth

You rarely need plugins. Most of the stuff is built in.

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mafflerbach

But there are plugins for vim as well.
Eg. for filenavigation (with a tree is nerdtree) but netrw (:Explorer) has as well a tree view ( cycling with i between the views)

For fuzzy search over files vim-fzf, i think it handles the open buffers as well, but if not - there is defnitly a plugin for it somewhere....

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Siddharth

Yeah there are a lot of plugins.

I'm having some trouble installing plugins, especially because I'm using neovim which is a bit different.

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Jonathan Boudreau

vim-plug should be roughly the same on neovim and vim. Been using it for several years, can recommend.

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siddharthshyniben profile image
Siddharth

Hmm, but I'm having trouble installing it on my outdated machine

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Jonathan Boudreau

What is the error you're getting?

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Siddharth

Fixed it now, used vim-plug instead of vundle

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Jonathan Boudreau

Nice work, all the best.