There are lots of plugins that do similar jobs to those that I'm going to mention, but I'm not interested in making this an exhaustive list; these are my recommendations based on experience, and they may well change as time goes on:

1. Syntax checking/linting
2. File navigation
3. Keyword searching
4. Autocompletion
5. Tags
6. "Project management"

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.

It is a completely cross platform distribution that stays true to the feel of vim while providing modern features like a plugin management system, autocomplete, tags and tons more.

vim-airline - lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air

Vim's relativenumber option is great, but sometimes it gets into your way a bit. With some clever settings, let's set it up so it just works.

by Geoff Greer

I know Vim better than most. Vim was my first real text editor. I used it for years. I helped write the Floobits plugin for Vim. I’ve delved into Vim’s source code to figure out its workings. I even helped write a patch (though it was rejected). Considering these credentials, I hope you’ll accept that I know what I’m talking about.

It may come as a shock when I say: The only good part of Vim is its user interface.

Master PDF Editor is а complete application for editing PDF documents and PDF files for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions) and other GTK+/Gnome platforms. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal or to other alternatives such as Jarnal, Gournal, and NoteLab.

neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor vim source code in order to achieve the following goals:

• Simplify maintenance to improve the speed that bug fixes and features get merged.
• Split the work between multiple developers.
• Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source.
• Improve the extensibility power with a new plugin architecture based on coprocesses. Plugins will be written in any programming language without needing explicit support from the editor.

By achieving these goals, new developers will be more inclined to join the community, consequently improving the editor for all users.

If my latest post on the topic did not tip you off, I am a Vim fan. So before some of you start stoning me, let me present you a list of "obscure Vim commands." What I mean by that is: a collection of commands that you might have not encountered before, but that might be useful to you. As a second disclaimer, I do not know which commands you might know and which one you find useful. So this list really is a collection of relatively less known Vim commands, but which can still probably be useful.

A simple, powerful, and free open-source video editor for Linux with a focus on usability, flexibility, and style.