Vim

It is recommended that you use gVim in either Windows or Linux and MacVim for
Mac. Download from:

• (Windows) http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc (gvim72.exe)
• (Mac) http://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/list (snapshot-52)

Usage

Troubleshoot: Because of the large amount of submodules, if you ever have any
trouble after pulling from the repository, it will be easier to just back up
your old .vim folder and just git clone a new version.

Clone this repo into your home directory either as .vim (linux/mac) or
vimfiles (Windows). Such as:

git clone git@github.com:gitman/vimfiles.git ~/.vim

Then ‘cd’ into the repo and run this to get the snippets submodule:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Now just copy (or symlink) the .vim/vimrc file as .vimrc (Mac/Linux)
or copy as _vimrc (Windows) in your home directory. In Mac and Linux, the
easiest thing to do is:

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

If you already have a custom .vimrc file, append the following lines to
load everything else along with your personal hacks:

source ~/.vim/vimrc      "linux
source ~/vimfiles/vimrc  "windows

Help Tags

At first usage of vim, type “:” while in command mode and execute:

call pathogen#helptags()

This will make the plugins documentations available upon :help

Dependencies

You will need these dependencies figured out:

• Ruby (for the fuzzy finder plugin)
• Exuberant Ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)
• Ncurses-term (in Linux only)

In Ubuntu, for example, you will have to do:

apt-get install exuberant-ctags ncurses-term

On Windows you have to download Ctags and add ctags.exe in your PATH.

Mac OS X and most Linux distros come with Ruby already. If you’re in Windows
look for Luis Lavena’s latest Ruby Installer (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)

IMPORTANT: Command-T

Command-T is not working for me some how so I am using the legacy FuzzyFinder by Takeshi NISHIDA.
Command_t is still available.

Learn Vim

Visit the following sites to learn more about Vim:

• http://vimcasts.org

There are many sites teaching Vim, if you know of any other that are easy
to follow for newcomers, let me know.

Credits

• Original project and most of the heavy lifting: @scrooloose
• All the cool plugins for Rails, Cucumber and more: @timpope
• Hacks: @gitman