Vim Awesome

Vim Awesome wants to be a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date directory of Vim plugins.

Many recent Vim plugins are announced on Hacker News or specialized boards, and have since become widely used. But how does a new user find out about these? We wanted to solve that problem and others with Vim Awesome — an open-sourced community resource for discovering new and popular Vim plugins.

Where does the data come from? GitHub, Vim.org, and user submissions.

On GitHub there are more than 30 000 repos that are development environment configurations, commonly called dotfiles. From these repos we can extract references to Vim plugins (as Git URIs), particularly when plugin managers are used.