Plugins!

Yes vim does get better.

Yes, that not so pretty language VimL is a primary vehicle in making things nice. In NeoVim you can use Lua, which is quite nice. Especially when you consider that there is a Typescript -> lua converter. Which means you can use a typed language and get type completion and create vim plugins. 42069IQ

Get a Plugin Manager

Plug!

Lets follow the instructions together getting Plug vim plugin manager installed

... plays waiting music ...

File Navigation 2.0

Let's add a fuzzy finder, remap some things, and make it work for us. We are going to use FZF even though I Use telescope personally. The reason for this is because Telescope is neovim specific (lua) and wont work with Vim. Where as FZF has been working for some time with vim.

Lets add the following lines to your vimrc

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } }
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'

call plug#end()

Our vimrc should look something like the following.

set scrolloff=8
set number
set relativenumber
set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set smartindent

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } }
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'

call plug#end()

" This was from the colorscheme section
colorscheme desert

" Our remaps
let mapleader = " "
nnoremap <leader>pv :Vex<CR>
nnoremap <Leader><CR> :so ~/.config/nvim/init.vim<CR>

Lets source our vimrc

" or use your sweet remap
:so %

Now we need to execute our plugin manager.

:PlugInstall

WARNING

My Vim Colorscheme is just a default one, its ugly

Once you do this you should see the following menu

Now we can execute :GFiles, lets give it a try in vim-nav-playground.

WHAT HAVE I TAUGHT YOU?

What should we do now?

• M A K E _ A _ R E M A P

nnoremap <C-p> :GFiles<CR>

Recap

• We got a plugin manager that makes installing plugins easy! You just need the path on github to install new ones.

• We installed FZF, made a remap! then showed how awesome it is.