Show HN: Vim Awesome – Vim plugins

Right, because stars on github are a perfect indication that a plugin will work for me.

Where is it stated that it's a perfect metric for plugin relevancy?

Alternatively, what would be a better metric. Any ideas?

Numbers is one of my favourite Vim plugins! Looks like you are the author. Thank you so much for writing it!

This is awesome indeed!

I've just thought of two features that would make it even more awesome. Every plugin could have the following two lists:

1. Known to be incompatible with

2. Frequently installed together with

The first list would have to be user-edited, but the second one could theoretically be determined by searching github.

I just can't get excited about vim plugins (no matter how good they are, no matter how much I love vi/vim - and no disrespect to their authors). I can imagine how they could increase my productivity (to some extent) but...

I'm old school, I work happily with vi, many of the customers I dealt with going back to the mid-90s never gave me a choice. SunOS 4.1.3U5 (ugh). AIX 3. Heady days of Solaris 2.5. Bog standard vi. vim is a bonus, but I'm far from lost when it's just vi. I love macros, but I can still get stuff done if they aren't available. If there's no vi then I'm not lost either, I can work around stuff with awk/sed/etc.

Fundamentally I don't want to have to ever install a bunch of stuff in multiple places to create a common environment for myself. That's a big problem that hasn't been solved yet. I just want it to be the same everywhere, which is why I don't rely on zsh or even ksh, and I just go for the bare minimum.

I've been to too many customers to know that not being able to do stuff within someone else's environment is really not a good thing. I've seen people escorted off customer sites because they've been ineffectual.

But, the biggest takeway is that I've seen too many new employees/interns that are lost without their expected favoured environment, and it's not getting better. vim plugins aside, there's a growing lack of adaptability.