Yes he is. We use to say at work for every vim user, that he should select and download at least half of tpope's plugins.

Yes. To save people a few clicks:

https://github.com/tpope/

He's got a cool sense of humor too. Here are a few recent gems from his @tpope twitter account: "My favorite part of the glaucoma puff test is how it always works the first time and they never end up blasting your eyeball over and over." "Some people think 300 words isn't much. Me, sometimes I have to pad out even my tweets. Lovely weather today, by the way."