So, you don't have to get out of Vim to look for files to edit, you simply stay in Vim, open NERDTree and look for the files. The file will be displayed and you can edit all along. This plugin works as a file browser, you open it, search the file you want to edit and than hit enter. The key combinations can be seen as follows:įor more detailed information go to link: The first one is in visual mode and the second one is in normal mode. When using visual selection ( v or V) than use capital S for surrounding, i.e. Without this plugin this won't work for a html tag. When hitting % the cursor jumps to the matching pair, but normally this won't work for a html tag. In a C file, if you're on one of the brackets like, , () and so on, you'll see those brackets highlighting in pairs. It searches for matching tags using the existing % key. This is a nice plugin too, especially when dealing with html files. So to make our coding life easier, we can install Vim plugins to have more fun while coding.įirst, here's a list of Vim plugins below I use it for writing code: Vim is not a code editor out of the box, so you can not expect to have cool stuff like Visual Studio's intellisense, or jumping to definition of a function and so on. Vim is a powerful editor, it really is, but you need some plugins to make it more powerful to your needs. To use Vim as an editor for C/C++ (and other programming languages as well), we need to extend Vim with some handy plugins.
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