vim

Recently I have started improving my vi(m) abilities, with the intent of having a coherent editing environment on both OS X at home and Linux (Ubuntu) at work.

Resources:

  • http://www.vim.org/
  • pathogen (tpope‘s thing for separating out different vim goodies into their own directories)
  • Derek Wyatt‘s vimeo vim screencasts

    • Other people’s .vimrc files

    Setting up (from scratch):

    Set up alias in .bashrc to allow use of single vim

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    # Linux
    # alias g='gvim --remote-silent "$@"'
    #
    # OS X
    alias m='mvim --remote-silent "$@"'

    Create a .vimrc file with the contents of Derek Wyatt’s four bits of vimrc files.

    Create a new .vim directory and then a .vim/plugins wherein to install pathogen.vim, and create a .vim/bundle for it to use.

    Add this to the top of .vimrc:

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    " pathogen http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332

    call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()