Extending VIM functions with plugins

Back in LXF258 we introduced you to Vim, a fiercely popular and featureful text editor, and discussed how you can enhance your Vim experience by enabling some advanced options such as auto-completion, smart search, and even polish your writings by using a thesaurus and dictionary.

While all that can be done with a vanilla Vim installation, albeit with some modifications to the configuration file, with different plugins you can get additional useful features such as creating bullet lists, and can even transform Vim into a password manager, and more.

Before we do that, however,