Alternatives

Products that do what Clippy for Vim does

Vim has tons of small, ingenious features and is capable of many smart hacks. Most of them might be relevant... once in a while. But „once in a while” means that when the time comes I won't remember they are available, or how to actually use them. Remembering Clippy[0], I have written a snippet for .vimrc that gives me a random advice (hint / feature / hack) when starting vim. It is not certain that I will need it here and now, but at least I will refresh my memory, and maybe I will be tempted to try it and internalize it during the session. Many (at least half) of the hints are…

1VH
vim-hackernews▲193
2015 · github.com
2
Clippy for your website▲212
A helpful and familiar friend for your website visitors
2018
3
Paste for iOS▲313
Cloud clipboard time machine for Mac and iOS
2018
4VA
Vim Awesome – Vim plugins▲222
2014 · vimawesome.com
5
Vim Ninja▲112
Master Vim right from your browser
2023
6
VIM Adventures▲88
Learning VIM while playing a game
2015
7
ClippyApp▲96
Copy and paste multiple items, with ease
2019
8
Clippy, but on Steroids▲190
"Hey Siri" with MCP calls and local LLM
Jan 2026
9
Pastey Extension▲91
Keep a library of saved text, paste it in a keystroke
Feb 2026
10SH
sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online▲183
2013 · yoursachet.com
11
25 Days of Vim▲76
A Vim Advent Calendar
2020
12
vimgifs▲131
Learn about vim by watching gifs
2016
13SI
shortcutFoo is an effective way to learn shortcuts (Vim, TextMate, etc)▲86
2012 · shortcutfoo.com
14AW
A workshop on how to use Vim plugins▲94
2015 · github.com
15
ClipMark▲113
Never lose anything you copy again
Apr 2026
16
Control V▲82
For the clipboard day. Copy & Paste over the internet!
2020
17
Vlipsy▲122
Easily add your favorite video clips to any conversation.
2017
18
kindaVim▲84
Vim for the whole macOS
2022
19
Instant Highlights V2 by Heygen▲95
Turn long videos into viral clips in seconds
Apr 2026
20
Clippy JS Library▲92
Add Clippy to your website for instant nostalgia 😍😍
2021
21AS
A Site for Learning Vim▲41
2021 · vim.is
22VM
VimCompletesMe, my first Vim plugin for Tab Completion▲6
I made this because I was using SuperTab and noticed that it uses a lot more code when I wanted something really simple: for Vim to intelligently choose what to autocomplete for me. Maybe it has more features but to me, it tried to do too much in a single plugin. So my goal here was to made a dead-simple, minimalistic Tab completion plugin. It does this with less than 60 lines of source code, compared to around 800 for Supertab. I hope you like it as much as I do.
2014 · github.com
23IM
I'm learning VIM and making a game out of it▲9
So, I'm learning VIM and made this yesterday, I pretend to increment it as I learn new stuff. You move with HJKL and that's it for now. Don't let the sublimes consume you. http://worms.io/vimwarrior/
2016
24AI
A)I updated my vimrc▲5
I have been a devoted vim user for almost 3 decades and frankly it has served me well! Yes I do get tempted to try out the next best thing (though Zed has some serious names so am even more tempted). But frankly something about staying in the terminal that I am just too used to and dont want to change. Though I never bothered updating the vimrc often (did 4 "major" updates in those years) I found myself wanting to update my vimrc for vimspector. This time instead of again trying to understand vimscript and reading the various docs, I let claude code on it and dang it has been a fun journey…
Oct 2025 · github.com

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