A Comfortable .vimrc File (optimized for MacVim 7.3)

Target Users

This .vimrc file is developed for programmers.

It is optimized for MacVim 7.3. Meanwhile, it is useful for regular Vim/gVim, too.

Recommended Plug-ins

I highly recommend following plug-ins, which are also involved in this .vimrc file.

• pathogen
• vim-powerline
• vim-unimpaired
• command-t
• tagbar
• tabular
• nerdtree
• snipmate
• supertab
• pydoc

I also recommend 'molokai' color scheme, which is involved in this .virmc file too.

New Keys

Firstly, the leader key is mapped to , key.

Command Mode

jk           : Go back to Normal Mode

Insert Mode

jk           : Go back to Normal Mode
TAB          : Auto completion        (by plug-in supertab)

Normal Mode

,a=          : Tabulate by =          (by plug-in tabular)
,a:          : Tabulate by :          (by plug-in tabular)
,a::         : Tabulate by ::         (by plug-in tabular)
,a,          : Tabulate by ,          (by plug-in tabular)
,a#          : Tabulate by #          (by plug-in tabular)
,a<SPACE>    : Tabulate by SPACE      (by plug-in tabular)

,b           : Buffers list           (by plug-in command-t)
,n           : Next error in QuickFix window
,cp          : Prev error in QuickFix window
,cl          : Close QuickFix window
,d           : Directories            (by plug-in nerdtree)
,ev          : Edit .vimrc file in a new tab
,f           : Toggle Python code fold(by plug-in python_editing)
,F           : Fold Python code       (by plug-in python_editing)
,l           : Toggle invisible characters
,o           : Open file list         (by plug-in command-t)
,O           : Flush & open file list (by plug-in command-t)
,p           : Paste OS clipboard
,q           : Close current buffer and quit current window
,t           : Toggle tagbar          (by plug-in tagbar)
,w           : Write
,W           : Remove tailling whitespace and write
,y           : Copy to OS clipboard
,yy          : Copy to OS clipboard
,<SPACE>     : Remove searching highlight results
,z           : Quit VIM

,1           : Single window
,2           : Dual-window
,3           : Tri-window
,sh          : New window on left
,sl          : New windwo on rught
,sk          : New window on top
,sj          : New window on bottom

,ss          : Toggle spell checking
,sc          : Correct spell error
,sa          : Add current word to dictionary
,sn          : Next spelling error
,sp          : Previous spelling error

;;           : Switch buffer

K            : Show Python doc        (by plug-in vim-unimpaired)

SHIFT-SPACE  : Page up
SPACE        : Page Down
SHIFT-UP     : Scroll window up
SHIFT-DOWN   : Scroll window down
CONTROL-UP   : Bubble lines up        (by plug-in vim-unimpaired)
CONTROL-DOWN : Bubble lines down      (by plug-in vim-unimpaired)

BACKSPACE    : Behave like BACKSPACE under insert mode
ENTER        : Break the line from cursor and insert a blank line

CONTROL-h    : Jump to left window
CONTROL-l    : Jump to right window
CONTROL-k    : Jump to upper window
CONTROL-j    : Jump to lower window

Visual Mode

,a=          : Tabulate by =          (by plug-in tabular)
,a:          : Tabulate by :          (by plug-in tabular)
,a::         : Tabulate by ::         (by plug-in tabular)
,a,          : Tabulate by ,          (by plug-in tabular)
,a#          : Tabulate by #          (by plug-in tabular)
,a SPACE     : Tabulate by SPACE      (by plug-in tabular)

Improved Keys

~            : Toggle among UPPER CASE, lower case and Title Case
n/N          : Scroll to the middle
*/#          : Scroll to the middle
CONTROL-o/i  : Scroll to the middle
Y            : Yank to end of line

Installation

You can either browse and copy file vimrc from github.com or use following command line to "install" this .vimrc file.

git clone git://github.com/sun-li/vim.git
cp vimrc ~/.vimrc

Note

If you have interest for the technical details, please read embedded comments in the .vimrc file.