When I first started working my tutor insisted we use vi. His reasoning was that vi was the only editor we were guaranteed to find on all various versions of UNIX. After 6 weeks of fighting with it, the keystrokes started to leak into my muscle memory and since then vi or one of its derivatives has been my editor of choice. I moved to vim fairly early on, but didn’t really get into the whole plugin ecosystem. Over the years though I’ve slowly added plugins (and rejected a fair few as well) and so now I have a sort of “standard set”, which, although not final, is what I am currently using. Plugin Manager For vim I was using Plug, while for Nvim I was using NeoBundle. NeoBundle is no longer being developed and Dein (by the same author) is now recommended as the replacement so I’ve changed to using that in both vim and nvim. To update your plugins run: