Having a great code editor is crucial. As a software developer you are probably spending all day watching and coding with it. My all time favorite source code editor is Vim. I like its fast navigation and rich of available plugins that make it so easy when it comes to work with open-source technologies such as ruby on rails and node.js.
However, removing a plugin from Vim sometimes required you to locate all the dependencies modules before you can make a clean remove, eg. nerdtree.
pathogen.vim allow you to manage your plugins by extending Vim to be able to load plugins from ~/.vim/bundle directory. To remove a plugin you just goto ~/.vim/bundle directory then delete the plugin directory and you are done.
Have fun!
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