Add "Debugging" section

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#### [Usage](#usage-1)
- [Managing plugins](#managing-plugins)
#### [Debugging](#debugging-1)
- [General tips](#general-tips)
#### [List of colorschemes](#list-of-colorschemes-1)
#### [List of plugins](#list-of-plugins-1)
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Plug is my favorite, but your mileage may vary.
## Debugging
#### General tips
If you encounter a strange behaviour, try reproducing it like this:
```
vim -u NONE -N
```
This will start Vim without vimrc (thus default settings) and in nocompatible
mode (which makes it use Vim defaults instead of vi defaults). (See `:h
--noplugin` for other combinations of what to load at start.)
If you can still reproduce it now, it's most likeley a bug in Vim itself! Report
it to the [vim_dev](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vim_dev) mailing
list. Most of the time the issue won't be resolved at this time and you'll have to
further investigate.
Often plugin updates introduce new/changed/faulty behaviour. If you're using a
plugin manager, comment them out until you find the culprit.
Issue is still not resolved? If it's not a plugin, it must be your other
settings, so maybe your options or autocmds etc.
Time to use binary search. Repeatedly split the search space in two until you
find the culprit line. Due to the nature of binary division, it won't take many
steps.
In practice it works like this: Put the `:finish` command in the middle of your
vimrc. Vim will skip everything after it. If it still happens, the problem is in
the active upper half. Move the `:finish` to the middle of _that_ half.
Otherwise the issue is in the inactive lower half. Move the `:finish` to the
middle of _that_ half. And so on.
## List of colorschemes
Here's a list of commonly used colorschemes: