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How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)
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A thoughtbot meetup talk by Max Cantor on getting most of what popular plugins provide using only built-in Vim features. It covers autocomplete, file jumping, filesystem navigation, build integration and snippets, with slides and a vimrc available.
HN treats it as the canonical talk for the case that vanilla Vim goes a long way and plugin dependencies are a burden.
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