I use Tim Pope’s vinegar.vim, which shows a file list whenever - is pressed. I don't use project drawers anymore, and for some background on why you should check out Oil and vinegar - split windows and the project drawer.

Kakoune

Kakoune by Maxime Coste is a Vim-inspired editor that focuses on incremental editing using selections:

I don’t know if Vim-inspired aesthetics is a thing, but some people are definitely console fetishists. Ideas from Vim and text-based UIs make their way into web software, and a great example of this is Treed (GitHub: jaredly / treed, License: Apache 2.0) by Jared Forsyth.

vim-heroku (GitHub: tpope/vim-heroku, License: Vim) by Tim Pope is a Heroku Toolbelt wrapper. It provides a :Hk command that wraps around the Toolbelt but also hk.

Using Vim as a password manager seems to be popular, but the built-in encryption options are limited. If you look at :help 'cryptmethod' you'll see options for zip and blowfish, with zip as the default.

Neovim is now on GitHub, has a Google Group, and Thiago has been posting progress updates:

• Rewards have been fufilled with backers.md and logos on website
• Most of the code in os_unix.c has been ported to libuv in the os directory, getting us closer…

A reader who was also a fan of Patternjump sent in vim-columnmove, which is by the same author. This is a plugin that helps make vertical movement more convenient by providing vertical equivalents of motions like f and t.

Thai Pangsakulyanont sent in vim-reveal-in-finder (GitHub: henrik / vim-reveal-in-finder, License: MIT), a plugin that can open the current path in Finder. It uses the open command that Mac OS…

Angular.vim (GitHub: burnettk / vim-angular, License: Vim) by Kevin Burnett is a set of shortcuts for working with AngularJS projects. Features include switching between test and implementation files (:A), goto file tweaks…