markdown-preview.nvim | markdown preview plugin for vim

Welcome to Vim!

I think most new vim users have been there. I certainly have! I wanted a 'vim as python IDE' and copied a whole bunch of stuff from every blog under the sun into my vimrc almost immediately after installing vim.

After some time spent fighting with all the settings, plugins and remaps I didn't understand, I decided to go through my vimrc, line by line and comment out anything I didn't understand (nearly all of it).

Then I used this more minimal vim for a while and whenever I decided I had a need for a certain feature, I checked the largely commented vimrc for anything that looked related, and/or googled for that particular feature only. Often you find that there is a built in method to do it with the core vim commands, and if not, then there are a lot of solutions for the problem (and often, you find that there is an even more powerful way that didn't occur to you - these are good days).

But the key is to not try and coerce vim into a huge IDE overnight! Let it happen gradually and things will make more sense, and you'll end up with a vimrc that you understand and therefore be in a position to add to it and tweak it.

The last thing I'll say is to recommend the following books:
'Learn VimScript the Hard Way' by Steve Losh
'Practical Vim' by Drew Neil, and his accompanying screencast series.
(Also there is The Primagean who does high quality youtube tutorials)

Having said all that, and acknowledging that an objective answer can't be given for your question, here is a minimal vimrc which has a few plugins and settings that do simple but very useful things (but do read up on them to understand how they work!):