Here is a non-exhausive list of really great vim plugin:

General

git

Vim-Fugitive - work on your commits from within GIT! https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
Git.vim is a plugin that allows the user to perform a lot more Git operations from within the Vim environment. http://github.com/motemen/git-vim/tree/master
This plugin was designed to display the current branch info in the vim status line. http://github.com/taq/vim-git-branch-info/tree/master
the only one I use is git-vim, the rest is not really helpfull for me [gcmalloc]

pathogen

For plugin management, after installing you can keep all your plugin in a ~/.vim/bundle. You can keep every plugin as a git depot for git-submodule management or similar. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332

Vundle

Even better than pathogen, it's a full feature package manager for vim plugin. Ex : Bundle 'sjl/gundo.vim'

conque

A shell wrapper you can open a shell in a vim buffer simply with

ConqueTerm ipython

or

ConqueTerm zsh

http://code.google.com/p/conque/ It will hang sometime, and ignore esc key. You can use tmux to have a real shell on the side.

ack

A simple shortcut to the ack command, a grep alternative specially designed for programmers. To search for all the source code for a word with some grep option by default. https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

surround

add or remove surrounding, it support parenthesis opening and closing. For example:

"hello" to 'hello' with cs"'

https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

DelimitMate

Close open parenthesis, bracket, quote, double quote or whatever symbols you want it to care about.

The-NERD-Tree

A file browser in vim, much better than the default one. https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

auto-mkdir

Automatically create the directory that doesn't exist yet when saving a buffer.

minibufexplorer

always see all opened buffer, change between them, see wich one are selected. https://github.com/fholgado/minibufexpl.vim

snipmate

Very good snipet utility, very easily scriptable.

superTab

tab make the completion for everything, snipet completion too if you have snipmate
https://github.com/ervandew/supertab

Align

Automagically align character on lines. Works very well with a selection to create lines similar to a = 4 armenia = 4

vim-powerline

status-bar on cocaine, with svn, git status, encoding, end of line, and more
https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

speedating

Increment/Decrement date with ctrl+a/ctrl+x, works so well you will loose your calendar. Very handy to build macro on top of it.

ZoomWin

Maximize one window, then go back to the original layout

javascript

jslint

a simple linter with the quick fix window support

css

css-color

add the color of every color tag as the background for example: html { color: blue } the background of blue will be blue

Python

Pydoc

Works very well for the default cpython lib. will open a new buffer in a new window with the corresponding doc when completing.

Rope

Renaming at project scope, changing element and moving code around. Works really great

Pyflake

A simple linter with quick fix window support

Erlang

Vimerl

The best plugin around for programming in erlang with vim https://github.com/oscarh/vimerl

TO test

fugitive gitv bad-whitespace Powerline css_color The_NERD_tree UltiSnips FuzzyFinder afterimage tabular DrawIt matchit.zip clang_complete visualstar PickAColor surround DirDiff textobj-rubyblock Conque_Shell Gundo vim_easymotion

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