Brian Wright's Vim Config

Installation

• Run git clone https://github.com/BbrianWwright/Vim_Config.git to grab vim config
• Run :PluginInstall to install plugins
• Move _vimrc(corresponds to .vimrc) and vimfiles (corresponds to .vim) to your home directory (Slightly different for windows). Could also symlink, copy, or whatever...
  • Symlink ex.

   # must be absolute
   ln -s ~/Vim_Config/_vimrc ~/.vimrc
   ln -s ~/Vim_Config/vimfiles ~/.vim
  

Adding new plugins

• For Vundle
  • Just add in _vimrc and do :PluginInstall when ready

Font

• Iosevka is pretty neat

Useful Vim Links

• http://paulherron.com/blog/vim_cheatsheet/
• http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/
• http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-annoyances/
• http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2012/relative-line-numbers-in-vim-for-super-fast-movement/
• http://www.bestofvim.com/tip/trailing-whitespace/
• http://www.bestofvim.com/tip/auto-reload-your-vimrc/
• https://bluz71.github.io/2017/05/21/vim-plugins-i-like.html

Shamelessly copying a nice email a mentor of mine wrote to me:

So when first starting to learn vim I suggest not going crazy with plugins at first.

Remember in vim you can generally type :help <something> in normal mode and it'll tell you what <something> does. For example, :help gg.

Latest Version

To start though, you'll want an updated vim. If you have Homebrew you can use that. I go a simpler route and install MacVim and then add an alias to my.profile:

alias vim=/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim

This gets me vim 7.4 which has some nice features.

.vimrc

There are definitely some .vimrc things you want to add though. To start, these two are good resources:

• http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/
• http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-annoyances/
• http://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html

Really, start fairly vanilla and when you don't like something or are looking for a feature you add it or change it.

I think relative line numbers is a really awesome feature since you can jump lines by doing something like 10j to go down ten lines.

• http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2012/relative-line-numbers-in-vim-for-super-fast-movement/

Note that feature is only available in vim 7.4 or higher.

Plugins

For plugins I suggest using vim-pathogen because it's super easy to use. The guy who wrote it, Tim Pope, writes a ton of great vim plugins.

Another great plugin is vim-easymotion.

For syntax checking and linting syntastic is probably the best game in town. I have mines set up to use flake8 for Python.

Random Commands

Some commands I find useful are:

• gg: top of file
• G: bottom of file
• zz: center screen on current line
• o: insert line below and go into insert mode
• gqq: hard wrap current line to max width (default 80 characters)
• ci(: delete all characters in between my current paren level and go into insert mode
• ci": same as above but with quotes
• Ctrl+V: go into block edit mode
• %s/regex_search/regex_replace/g: search and replace all instances on all lines
• %s/\vsearch/replace: use perl style regex instead of vim's weird regex style (see this)