My Vim files

On Unix this repository should be saved as ~/.vim/. On Windows this repository should be saved as ~/vimfiles/.

Another annoying difference is that under Unix your vimrc is stored as ~/.vimrc and under Windows as ~/_vimrc. We get more consistency by storing our vimrc in this repository without a prefix.

I use vim-plug for managing external plugins. They will be stored in a plugged/ folder after you open Vim and run :PlugInstall.

Organisation

• after contains customizations that add to existing plugins
  • I apply some post-hoc highlighting rules to whatever color scheme is loaded
  • bindings for specific filetypes, such as programming languages
• autoload
  • simple functions that are not part of a plugin and are called in mappings
• mappings.vim
  • general mappings without side-effects
• plugins.vim
  • list of plugins that will be installed via vim-plug
• spell
  • spelling files
  • abbreviations
  • thesaurus
• ultisnips
  • snippets for various languages in UltiSnip format

External dependencies to install

WIP:

• Deoplete requires: python -m pip install pynvim.
• python -m pip install flake8

Reading materials for configuring Vim

• https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc
• https://vimways.org/2018/from-vimrc-to-vim/