Vim

Vim customize features is compatible between plugin and vim builtin plugin / command.
Ever without any plugins still can working as similar features.

Installation

1. Clone to $HOME/.config/vim

   git clone https://github.com/yimjiajun/vim.git $HOME/.config/vim

2. Install vim and requires packages:

   ./$HOME/.config/vim/features/install.sh

3. Enjoy vim:

   vim

manual installation

1. Download vim repository and enter the source code

   git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git /tmp/vim
   cd /tmp/vim/src

2. Configure support python¹ in vim and build the source code then install it

   ./configure --enable-pythoninterp --enable-python3interp
   make
   sudo make install

3. Restart Terminal and check the vim version

   vim --version

• either one +python or +python3 features should be included + ¹:

  vim --version | grep python

4. Clone to $HOME/.config/vim

   git clone https://github.com/yimjiajun/vim.git $HOME/.config/vim

5. Export vim customize vim configuration file path²
   Source the script to active the environment variable.

   • zsh shell:

     echo "export VIMINIT='source $HOME/.config/vim/init.vim'" >> $HOME/.zshrc
     source $HOME/.zshrc

   • bash shell:

     echo "export VIMINIT='source $HOME/.config/vim/init.vim'" >> $HOME/.bash_aliases
     source $HOME/.bashrc

6. Install vim plugins and install system dependencies package

   vim +PlugInstall +qall
   vim +Install +qall

Footnotes

1. vim --version: should display either one +python or +python3 to support snippets ↩ ↩²

2. Why $VIMINIT : Startup configuration file rather than calling .vimrc for Neovim and Vim, which environment variable is using on both editor. ↩