Vim is a very capable editor. Its scripting support allows the use of plugins that enhance the functionality of it. Many people have written scripts, they are scattered all over the web; however, there's a central resource on https://www.vim.org/ to start with.

This is a collection of some of those scripts on a purely subjective and biased basis. Users can thus have some nice scripts without having to go searching. The scripts can be installed globally or on a per user basis. Here is a summary of the included scripts:

* AlignPlugin - Provides commands to help produce aligned text, eqns, declarations * alternateFile - Alternate Files quickly (.c --> .h etc) * bufexplorer - Easily switch between buffers without knowing their numbers * calendar - Calendar * closetag - Easily close SGML-like tags * color_sampler_pack - over 100 different color schemes * cvsmenu - CVS menu supporting most CVS commands * debPlugin - for browsing Debian packages * detectindent - Automatically determine indent settings * doxygen-toolkit - Simplify Doxygen documentation * dtd2vim - create XML data file for XML omni-completion from DTDs * EnhancedCommentify - Quickly comment lines in a program * gnupg - Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files * info - GNU info documentation browser * lbdbq - Easily query lbdb from Vim * minibufexpl - Elegant buffer explorer - takes very little screen space * nerd-commenter - easy code commenting * omnicppcomplete - C/C++ omni-completion with ctags * po - Easier editing of PO multi-lingual translation files * project - organize and navigate file projects * python-indent - alternative Python indent script * secure-modelines - secure, user-configurable modeline support * snippetsEmu - emulate TextMate's snippet expansion * supertab - use the tab key for all insert-mode completion * surround - easily delete, change, and add 'surround' of text * taglist - Source code browser (supports dozens of languages) * tetris - Tetris for Vim * utl - Univeral Text Linking - Execute URLs in plain text * VCSCommand - Commands for cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr, svk * vimplate - template system based on template-toolkit * VimSokoban - Sokoban Game for Vim * whatdomain - Find out the meaning of any Top Level Domain * winmanager - A windows style IDE for Vim 6.0 * xmledit - Helper for editing XML, HTML, and SGML documents

All of the addons are installed as "optional" Vim packages. They can be enabled by adding "packadd! " (e.g., "packadd! AlignPlugin") to the vimrc.