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Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. The way that you interact with it make it more than just a text editor (or not), a way of interacting with your entire computer.

Using it, your understanding of how to interact with a computer may change. And not only for editing text, but in how you manage your entire system, from the window manager, till your general workflow.

Tools

You can find a comprehensive list of applications using Vim keybindings in the The Keybindings Everywhere - The Ultimate List.

Tools where I currently use Vim keybindings

• aerc: an email client that runs in the terminal, highly efficient and extensible
• bash: the GNU Project’s shell the Bourne Again SHell
• dwm: dynamic window manager for X
• qutebrowser: a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
• tmux: a terminal multiplexer
• vifm: a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt
• pulsemixer: cli and curses mixer for PulseAudio

Tools I’ve used but I stop using or rarely use

• NeoMutt: a command line mail reader
• bspwm: tiling window manager (binary space partition window manager)
• i3: improved tiling window manager
• vidir: edit directories and filename in vim (or other text editor, if you find a reason for that …)

Configuration

Some configuration tips …

Enable (java) autocompletion

Add the pluggin to your .vimrc file:

call plug#begin(globalVimfiles.'/plugged')
Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'branch': 'release'}
call plug#end()

Install the plugin:

:PlugInstall

Install java extension:

:CocInstall coc-java

Use coc-explorer

From the developer github:

1. Install by coc.nvim command

:CocInstall coc-explorer

2. Configuration custom vim mapping

:nmap <space>e <Cmd>CocCommand explorer<CR>

3. Open explorer

<space>e

4. Press ? to show mappings help

I have changed default keymapping in vim to not lose functionality, so I changed Manage extensions to use ‘E’ instead of ‘e’:

" Manage extensions
nnoremap <silent><nowait> <space>E  :<C-u>CocList extensions<cr>
" Open coc-explore
nmap <space>e <Cmd>CocCommand explorer<CR>