vgod's vimrc

Author: Tsung-Hsiang (Sean) Chang vgod@vgod.tw

Fork me on GITHUB https://github.com/vgod/vimrc.

ONE-STEP INSTALL

Use curl (for Mac OS X):

 curl -o - https://raw.github.com/vgod/vimrc/master/auto-install.sh | sh

or wget (for most UNIX platforms):

 wget -O - https://raw.github.com/vgod/vimrc/master/auto-install.sh | sh

MANUALLY INSTALL

1. Check out from github

    git clone git://github.com/vgod/vimrc.git ~/.vim
    cd ~/.vim
    git submodule update --init
   

2. Install ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvimrc

    ./install-vimrc.sh
   

3. (Optional, if you want Command-T) Compile the Command-T plugin

    cd .vim/bundle/command-t/ruby/command-t
    ruby extconf.rb
    make
   

MANUALLY INSTALL ON WINDOWS

1. Check out from github

    cd C:\Program Files\Vim   (or your installed path to Vim)
    rmdir /s vimfiles         (This deletes your old vim configurations. If you want to keep it, use move instead of rmdir.)
    git clone git://github.com/vgod/vimrc.git vimfiles
    git submodule update --init
   

2. Install vimrc. Add the following line at the end of C:\Program Files\Vim\vimrc.

    source $VIM/vimfiles/vimrc
   

INSTALL & UPGRADE PLUGIN BUNDLES

All plugins (except vim-latex) were checked out as git submodules, which can be upgraded with git pull. For example, to upgrade Command-T

 cd ~/.vim/bundle/command-t
 git pull

To install a new plugin as a git submoudle, type the followin commands.

 cd ~/.vim
 git submodule add [GIT-REPOSITORY-URL] bundle/[PLUGIN-NAME]

HOW TO USE

see the "USEFUL SHORTCUTS" section in vimrc to learn my shortcuts.

PLUGINS

• Pathogen: Pathogen let us install a plugin as a bundle in ~/.vim/bundle seprately.

• Nerd Tree: A tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem.

  Useful commands:

  • :Bookmark [name] - bookmark any directory as name
  • :NERDTree [name] - open the bookmark [name] in Nerd Tree

• AutoClose: Inserts matching bracket, paren, brace or quote.

• vim-surround: deal with pairs of surroundings.

• matchit: extended % matching for HTML, LaTeX, and many other languages.

• xmledit: XML/HTML tags will be completed automatically.

• Command-T: open and navigate between files with cmd-t.

• SuperTab: Do all your insert-mode completion with Tab.

• snipMate: TextMate-style snippets for Vim

  :help snipMate to see more info.

• YankRing: Maintains a history of previous yanks, changes and deletes

  :help yankring to see more info.

• VisIncr: Produce increasing/decreasing columns of numbers, dates, or daynames.

• Cute Error Marker: showing error and warning icons on line.

  MacVim users need to enable "Use experimental renderer" to see graphical icons.

• vim-latex: Latex support.

• OmniCppComplete: C/C++ omni-completion with ctags database.

• JavaComplete: Java Omni-completion.

• EasyMotion: An easy way to jump to a word.

  Useful commands:

  • ,w forward EasyMotion
  • ,b backward EasyMotion

• TagBar: browsing the tags of source files ordered by classes.

  Useful commands:

  • F7 toggles the TagBar

Language specific supports

• Latex: Read :help latex-suite.txt
• Restructured Text: ctrl-u 1~5 inserts Part/Chapter/Section headers
• HTML, Javascript, Python, CSS, C, C++, Java: use TAB to do omni-completion.
• HTML/XML: End tags are automatically completed after typing a begin tag. (Typing > twice pushes the end tag to a new line.)

Other good references

• http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html
• http://spf13.com/post/perfect-vimrc-vim-config-file