All these recent posts about peoples&#x27; &quot;light&quot; vim configs and they&#x27;re complex as hell.<p>There is some advantage to installing pathogen, airline, and just leaving it. Notably, defaults take like three lines of vimrc and you don&#x27;t have to make a blog post to remind yourself how to decipher it six months later.<p>Ironically, all the things this guy decries as &quot;noise&quot; I find fairly useful. There are parts I don&#x27;t use, but selectively ignoring them is much easier than adding even more lines to my two-page vimrc which is already bigger than I&#x27;d like.<p>Sometimes simple is more clever than complex.