[njt]

> Which plugins for Python coding are universally agreed on as "must haves" Preferably just one, or two at most.

I wrote Python in Vim for about 15 years before finding python-mode[0] about 4 years ago and I now find it absolutely indispensable.

Just about the only thing that it doesn't do natively is Black[1] (think gofmt for Python) which I started using a few months ago. It's not too hard to run it occasionally on my codebase, but I hope it's added in soon.

python-mode did remove its folding capabilties some time back, but it was easy to use another plugin for that: vim-coiled-snake[2].

Apart from these two plugins, and vim-fugitive[3] for git (another one that is a must-have), I don't use anything else except for the occasional syntax coloring plugin.

[0] https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode

[1] https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://github.com/kalekundert/vim-coiled-snake

[3] https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

[p1esk]

These actually seem to be exactly what I was looking for, thanks! What about files view in vim, like Nerdtree that someone mentioned below?

[nicamlg]

I've always used the NetRW plugin for file management. NERDTree was too sluggish for me (but that was 6 years ago...) NetRW does all I need to: tree view, open file (same buffer, same side-buffer, new buffer, new tab), create file, delete file. And it comes with vim's distribution.

Anything else I need I use a real file manager, like Midnight Commander (usually inside a vim's tab) of vifm (a very vi-like file manager).