List of recommended (Neo)vim plugins and resources

vim-plugins.md

Websites with plugins:

• awesome-neovim: List of modern Neovim plugins (most of them written in Lua)
• vimawesome.com: Searchable website with all Vim and Neovim plugins

Recommended plugins:

• telescope.nvim: Fuzzy finder for everything
• nvim-lspconfig: Configuration to enable built-in LSP
• nvim-cmp: Autocompletion
• nvim-lsp-installer: For installing and updating language servers from inside of Neovim
• nvim-treesitter: Configuration to enable built-in treesitter
• barbar.nvim or bufferline.nvim: Show open files (buffers) at the top as tabs
• Comment.nvim: For toggling comments
• formatter.nvim: For autoformatting on save
• indent-blankline.nvim: Display indent guides
• nvim-tree.lua: File explorer
• neoscroll.nvim: Smooth scrolling animations
• lualine.nvim: Statusline
• gitsigns.nvim: Indicates git status for edited lines
• lspkind-nvim: Show icons in autocompletion menu
• nvim-autopairs: Auto close parentheses, brackets, etc.
• vim-textobj-entire: Adds ie as in "in entire" as text object, for targeting the entire file
• vim-surrround: Adds grammar for adding, removing and changing surrounding characters like (, {, ", etc.
  • Recommended config:

    xmap s <Plug>VSurround
    xmap S <Plug>VgSurround
    nmap s ys
    nmap S ys$

• vim-repeat: Allows repeating commands from plugins with ., for instance vim-surround
• quick-scope: Shows unique characters to jump to using t/T/f/F
  • Recommended config:

    let g:qs_highlight_on_keys = ['f', 'F', 't', 'T']