Startify basically provides two things:
1) If you start Vim without giving any filenames to it (or pipe stuff to it so it reads from STDIN), startify will show a small but pretty start screen which shows recently used files (using viminfo) and sessions by default.
Additionally, you can define bookmarks, thus entries for files that always should be available in the start screen.
You can either navigate to a certain menu entry or you just key in whatever is written between the square brackets on that line.
2) It eases handling of loading and saving sessions by only working with a certain directory. Two commands are used for convenience:
:SLoad load a session
:SSave save a session
The default settings are pretty sane, so it should work without any configuration.
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If you have no preferred installation method, I suggest using tpope's pathogen:
- git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen ~/.vim/bundle/vim-pathogen
- mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload && cd ~/.vim/autoload
- ln -s ../bundle/vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim
Afterwards installing vim-startify is as easy as pie:
- git clone https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify ~/.vim/bundle/vim-startify
- start Vim
- :Helptags
- :h startify
:h startify
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