---
title: vim-essentials
homepage: https://webinstall.dev/vim-essentials
tagline: |
  meta package for our recommended vim plugins and settings
---

To update (replacing the current version) run `webi vim-essentials`.

### Files

These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this
install:

```text
~/.config/envman/PATH.env
~/.local/bin/
~/.local/opt/
~/.vimrc
~/.vim/plugins/
~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/
```

## Cheat Sheet

> A collection of extremely useful plugins and very simple one-line changes to
> vim's default settings.

This meta package will install the full set of plugins and settings we
recommended.

It includes many of the vim plugins available on webinstall.dev such as:

- [vim-leader](/vim-leader)
- [vim-shell](/vim-shell)
- [vim-sensible](/vim-sensible)
- [vim-viminfo](/vim-viminfo)
- [vim-lastplace](/vim-lastplace)
- [vim-smartcase](/vim-smartcase)
- [vim-spell](/vim-spell)
- [vim-shfmt](/vim-shfmt)
  - [shellcheck](/shellcheck)
  - [shfmt](/shfmt)
- [vim-ale](/vim-ale)
- [vim-prettier](/vim-prettier)
  - [prettier](/prettier)
- [vim-whitespace](/vim-whitespace)

It **DOES NOT** include these, which you may also want:

- Vim Utilities
  - [**vim-commentary**](/vim-commentary) (`gc` to toggle comment blocks)
  - [**vim-gui**](/vim-gui) (mouse and clipboard support)
  - [vim-nerdtree](/vim-nerdtree) (`space + n` for dir tree, `o` to open file)
  - [vim-devicons](/vim-devicons) (nerdfont icons in vim)
- Language Tooling
  - [jshint](/jshint) (JavaScript Linter)
  - [vim-go](/vim-go) (golang support)
  - [vim-rust](/vim-rust) (rustlang support)