Contents of my ~/.vim directory, take two.
Because there was so much cruft that I ended up nuking half the repo, so...
Personally, I recommend you use gVim on Windows and plain vim with a decent terminal emulator everywhere else. xfce4-terminal is a good starting point.
You can download vim from:
- (Linux) your favorite package manager
- (Windows) http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc (gvim74.exe)
Clone this repo into your home directory either as .vim (linux/mac) or vimfiles (Windows). Such as:
git clone https://github.com/rfc1459/vimfiles.git ~/.vim
After cloning, you should create a new .vimrc file in your home directory
that loads the pre-configured one that comes bundled in this package. On
Linux, a symbolic link will suffice:
$ ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc .vimrc
$ ln -s ~/.vim/gvimrc .gvimrc
On Windows, you should create a _vimrc and a _gvimrc in your profile's
home directory and add the following line inside:
_vimrc:
source ~/vimfiles/vimrc
_gvimrc:
source ~/vimfiles/gvimrc
On Vim 7.4 or later you can safely skip the previous step altogether.
At first usage of vim, type ":" while in command mode and then execute:
Helptags
This will make the plugins documentation available upon :help
You will need the following software on your system:
- Ncurses-term (in Linux only)
On Debian derivatives, for example, you will have to do:
apt-get install ncurses-term
Visit the following sites to learn more about Vim:
There are many sites teaching Vim, if you know of any other that are easy to follow for newcomers, let me know.
- Letting me know that versioning ~/.vim was a good idea: @vjt
- Inspiration for cleanup: @mislav
- Ditching submodules for subtrees: @durdn
- Vim demigod: @tpope