Plugins with Vim-Plug

Installing gVim

• On Windows

  chocolatey install vim

Create config

Make directory for your Vim config

mkdir %userprofile%\.config\vim

Create an .vimrc file if not already present.

• Note: _vimrc has a higher priority on Windows, so if it is present then either delete it, or add your config in _vimrc instead of `.vimrc'

type nul > %userprofile%\.vimrc

Install vim-plug

curl -fLo %userprofile%\.config\vim\autoload\plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

You should now have plug.vim in your autoload directory so it will load of on start

Add a new file for plugins

We will manage our plugins in a separate file for the sake of my own sanity

mkdir %userprofile%\.config\vim\vim-plug type nul > %userprofile%\.config\vim\vim-plug\plugins.vim

Let's add some plugins

Add the following to %userprofile%\.config\vim\vim-plug\plugins.vim

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } } " fuzzy file search using fzf. Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim' " fzf mappings. Plug 'wincent/command-t' " fuzzy finder 2 (will also try ctrlp) Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive' " git plugin Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary' " to quickly comment and uncomment statements. Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'branch': 'release'} " Intellisense Plugin. Plug 'preservim/nerdtree' " file tree. Plug 'justinmk/vim-sneak' " super quick jumping to desired position. Plug 'svermeulen/vim-easyclip' " awesome clipboard like features for yank/delete. Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' " opening brackets / quotes will add a matching closing pair Plug 'tpope/vim-surround' " changing surrounding brackets characters Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat' " covers a lot more in the dot (repeat command). Plug 'nelstrom/vim-visual-star-search' " expanding star search from single word to all selection. Plug 'mhinz/vim-startify' " cool startup screen " THEMES Plug 'gruvbox-community/gruvbox' Plug 'ayu-theme/ayu-vim' Plug 'romainl/Apprentice' Plug 'joshdick/onedark.vim' Plug 'aonemd/kuroi.vim' Plug 'rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes' " THEME ENHANCEMENTS Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' " customized status line. Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' " airline themes Plug 'sheerun/vim-polyglot' " better syntax highlighting Plug 'unblevable/quick-scope' " highlight for f,F,t,T Plug 'mhinz/vim-signify' " real time diff marker w.r.t HEAD Plug 'wellle/targets.vim' " change in `next` <quote> (cin') Plug 'kana/vim-textobj-user' " custom text objects Plug 'bps/vim-textobj-python' " custom text object for python Plug 'osyo-manga/vim-brightest' " highlight word you are on Plug 'junegunn/vim-easy-align' " align text around a delimiter Plug 'bogado/file-line' " file:line jump Plug 't9md/vim-choosewin' " switch between windows easily Plug 'weilbith/nerdtree_choosewin-plugin' " choose buffer when opening a file with nerdtree Plug 'romainl/vim-cool' " disable hl when search complete Plug 'Yggdroot/indentLine' " show indents Plug 'machakann/vim-highlightedyank' " highlight yank Plug 'embark-theme/vim', { 'as': 'embark' } " colorscheme embark " Neovim only Plugins Plug 'vim-scripts/python_match.vim' " extend % match for python Plug 'raimon49/requirements.txt.vim' " syn-hl for requirements.txt Plug 'MTDL9/vim-log-highlighting' " syn-hl for logs Plug 'wfxr/minimap.vim' " minimap Plug 'junegunn/vim-emoji' " autocomplete emoji if has('nvim') Plug 'glacambre/firenvim', { 'do': { _ -> firenvim#install(420) } } endif call plug#end()

Source your plugins

Add the following line to .vimrc

source $HOME\.config\vim\vim-plug\plugins.vim

Vim-plug commands

Open vim. Make sure you have the vim executable in your %PATH% variables.

gvim

Check the status of your plugins

:PlugStatus

Install all of your plugins

:PlugInstall

To update your plugins

:PlugUpdate

After the update you can press d to see the differences or run

:PlugDiff

To remove plugins that are no longer defined in the plugins.vim file

:PlugClean

Finally if you want to upgrade vim-plug itself run the following

:PlugUpgrade

Where did I learn all this?

Check out vim-plug on github