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Neovim 0.12 landed with a pile of things that used to be plugins: a native plugin manager (vim.pack), a native :restart, stock LSP keymaps, treesitter incremental selection. The release notes read like a checklist of things to rip out of your config.

So I went through mine, one area at a time, asking each the same question: should this move to the 0.12 way of doing it?

Four of the seven came back with some flavor of "no," and that turned out to be the useful part. Three earned a yes and I made the changes. The rest I left alone on purpose. The features are real and they work, but whether your config should adopt them is a different question, and the honest answer was mostly to leave it alone.

You install a plugin for multi-cursor editing. Another for shell integration. A third for incremental search preview. Your plugin count grows, startup time increases, and you debug compatibility issues between packages.

Most of these features exist in vanilla Neovim. Have existed since Vim 7. Here are 10 built-in features that replace common plugins.