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Jonathan Hartley@al3x Help us understand your question better by describing what is wrong with what would at first glance seem like the canonical answer "Every few months, read the list of installed plugins, and delete those you aren't using."
When you say "a few plugins", that sounds like you have about 6 (which is what I have). Do you actually have a lot more than that? Might the answer then be "Use fewer plugins, so that the resultant complexity is not too great to keep track of."
@tartley My question was intended for learning what others might be doing in this similar scenario. Practices, ideas.
1. I am in no position to prove that statement right or wrong.
2. I am not sure what makes the statement canonical.
3. I am not sure that's a common and/or wildly used practice.
4. It sounds like it is based on habits and thus prone to failure or forgetfulness.
5. I do have around 20 functional plugins. Beyond language specific ones and color
themes.
@al3x Ok, thanks for unpacking all that for my benefit. I get you now.
Yeah, you are right that my personal practice I described does rely on me remembering to do it. But on the flip side of that, if I do fail to do it for a month, there isn't any negative outcome from that. And there is a sort of inbuilt mechanism to remind me, in that if ever I open up my nvim config to check or change something, then all my plugins are declared there at the top of the file.
@al3x I guess of you wanted a more concrete or regular way to remember to do to it, you could set a recurring calendar entry.
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