I can’t use vim at all without at least vim-surround. Too much muscle memory for the bindings for that one.

I was absolutely thrilled to find that VSCode’s vim emulation included vim-surround! I guess someone out there has the same problem I do.

So much programming is editing various text surrounds: parents, braces, brackets, quotes of various flavors.

I also really like having semantic completions. I get by with YouCompleteMe, but it’s a little jank in my build system.