slawrence / dot_vim

dot_vim

Installation

On windows, add a HOME path variable with the following command:

setx HOME C:\path\to\home\

The HOME folder should be where the following commands are executed (unix/cygwin):

1. git clone http://github.com/slawrence/dot_vim.git ~/.vim
2. cd ~/.vim
3. git submodule init
4. git submodule update
5. Link vimrc
   • Installing on linux/macos
     • ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
   • Installing on windows (with sufficient privileges to execute mklink commands)
     • From $HOME: mklink _vimrc ".vim/vimrc"
     • Create a directory symbolic link for gVIm (from gVim installation, i.e. C:\Program Files\Vim)
       1. Remove old vimfiles dir and _vimrc file
       2. mklink _vimrc "%HOME\.vim\vimrc"
       3. mklink /D vimfiles %HOME%\.vim
   • Installing on windows without mklink access:
     • cp ~/.vim/_vimrc ~/_vimrc
     • For gVim manually copy bundle folder to vim directory

Optional Dependencies

Ctags

• Windows
  1. Download Ctags binary for windows
     • http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctags/
     • Add to PATH
     • Generate tags in a directory in vim by !ctags -R

Settings

Submodules/Plugins and Settings

pathogen

Vim Plugin manager. Installed as a pathogen module itself so it must be added to the vimrc file: runtime bundle/vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim

closetag

Assists when writing html/xml files by closing tags.

delimitmate

Provides auto closing of quotes, parenthesis, brackets, etc.

fugitive

Vim/Git integration

nerdcommenter

Provides commenting based on filetype shortcuts.

• ,c Toggles the selected line(s)
• ,ci Toggles the current line individually

nerdtree

FileBrowsing

• ,nt Open a tree in the current buffer's directory

solarized

Theme

tabular

Shortcuts for organizing.

unimpaired

Shortcuts

• [b or ]b Previous/Next buffer

vim-javascript

Provides syntax and indent plugins for javascript.

vim-powerline

Improved powerline.