Installation
git clone git://github.com/nelstrom/dotfiles.git
Where possible, Vim plugins are installed as git submodules. Check these out by running the commands:
cd dotfiles
git submodule init
git submodule update
Create symlinks:
ln -s ~/dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/irbrc ~/.irbrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
ln -s ~/dotfiles/ctags ~/.ctags
ln -s ~/dotfiles/jshintrc ~/.jshintrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
ln -s ~/dotfiles/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
ln -s ~/dotfiles/global-gitignore ~/.gitignore
I put Vim's backup and swap files in ~/tmp, so that directory must exist. To
be sure, run:
mkdir ~/tmp
My preferences for Vim are stored in dotfiles/vimrc and dotfiles/gvimrc
respectively. All plugins and scripts are stored in the dotfiles/vim
directory.
Plugins that are published on github can be installed as submodules. For example, to install the JavaScript bundle, follow these steps:
cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule add http://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript.git vim/bundle/vim-javascript
This will update the .gitmodules file by appending something like:
[submodule "vim/bundle/vim-javascript"]
path = vim/bundle/vim-javascript
url = http://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript.git
As well as checkout out the git repo into the
vim/bundle/vim-javascript directory. You can then commit these changes
as follows:
git add .
git ci -m "Added the javascript bundle"
The command-t extension require Vim with ruby support, and furthermore, the ruby code depends on a C extension for extra speed. The usual pathogen installation proceedure didn't work for me, but I followed these steps to make it work:
cd ~/dotfiles/vim/bundle/command-t/ruby/command-t
ruby extconf.rb
make
That did the trick.
My preferences for IRB customisations are stored in dotfiles/irbrc. To get
the most from these, you should install the interactive_editor and
awesome_print gems, by running:
gem install interactive_editor awesome_print