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+1. Works well for Markdown (inline code, links, headers)
+2. Visual selection needs to be visible
+3. Works well for popular plugins
+    - [Startify](https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify)
+    - [signify](https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify) (change, delete, add sign should be readable)
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