Introduction

These are the vim dotfiles used by Michael-Keith Bernard. Please feel free to use and modify them as you see fit.

Installation

• Clone the repository: $ git clone git://github.com/SegFaultAX/vim-dotfiles.git ~/.vim
• Move into the new .vim directory: $ cd ~/.vim
• Run the provided initialization script: $ ./manager --init
• Symlink your vimrc: $ ./manager --create-symlink

Important: The --create-symlink option will automatically backup your ~/.vimrc if one exists.

Note: This setup depends on vim being compiled with Ruby and Python support. If you built vim yourself, be sure to include --enable-pythoninterp and --enable-rubyinterp during configuration. If you're not sure if vim was built with Ruby and Python support, you can use vim --version to check.

Note: If you choose to fork this repo, you can fetch my current master version using the --fetch-vimrc command in manager.

NeoVim Users

This vim configuration should work as is with neovim (for the most part). If neovim is not correctly loading configuration from ~/.vim, see this issue:

neovim/neovim#3499

And the documentation:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/runtime/doc/vim_diff.txt#L22

:help vim_diff

The "manager" Script

The manager script makes staying up to date with this repository a breeze. First, check out the output from manager --help:

$ ./manager
Manager by Michael-Keith Bernard
Usage: ./manager
  --help - this help menu
  --fetch-vimrc - download maintainers repo
  --create-symlink - symlink /home/mkbernard/.vim/vimrc to ~/.vimrc
  --update-submodules - fetch newest submodule versions
  --clean-branches - remove all maintainer repo branches

  --init - initialize submodules, build Command-T, and clean Snipmate
  --init-commandt - build Command-T
  --init-snipmate - clean Snipmate
  --init-submodules - initialize submodules

Simply running ./manager --init from the project root will, by default, initialize and update any submodules, build Command-T, and remove the snipmate/snippets directory (there is a replacement snippets submodule in the root of this project). If you'd like to run any of these commands individually, use the available --init-X commands.

Staying up-to-date

To quickly fetch any changes from this repository, simply run:

$ ./manager --fetch-vimrc
Manager by Michael-Keith Bernard
Fetching maintainer version to segfaultax-25022012
From git://github.com/SegFaultAX/vim-dotfiles
 * [new branch]      master     -> segfaultax-25022012

You can now run 'git merge segfaultax-25022012' from master
You may also want to run 'git submodule init && git submodule update'
You can remove the branch with 'git branch -D segfaultax-25022012'

As you can see it fetches update from SegFaultAX/vim-dotfiles on GitHub into a branch called segfaultax- followed by todays date. Now you can merge in my changes, add/update any submodules, and destroy the temporary branch:

$ git checkout master
$ git merge segfaultax-22022012
$ git submodule init && git submodule update
$ git branch -D segfaultax-22022012

There is also a convenient helper method to delete all the segfaultax-* branches automatically:

$ ./manager --clean-branches

Contributing

I encourage you to submit patches or modifications to my vimrc or the list of submodules provided in this project. Make sure to rebase your changes onto my master branch and squash intermediate commits before issuing a pull request.

Active Contributors:

• Michael-Keith Bernard
• David Bush

License

All submodules, fonts, colorschemes and scripts are property of their respective owners. Please see their attached licenses for details.