Information

This is my personal Vim configuration that I use for all my text editing (LaTeX, markdown, coding, etc...). My configuration is mostly based off of scrooloose/vimfiles and astrails/dotvim from GitHub, with modifications to match my personal preferences.

Installing

1. Ensure you have git installed

2. Clone vim repository $ git clone git://github.com/kevinjalbert/vim.git ~/.vim

3. Setup Vundle $ git clone http://github.com/gmarik/vundle.git ~/.vim/bundle/vundle

4. Make symlink to .vimrc $ ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc .vimrc

5. Install vim plugins using Vundle

• Launch vim and run :BundleInstall

6. Enjoy!

Plugins

• Vim-indent-guides
• AfterColors
• Gundo.vim
• FuzzyFinder
• Scratch
• Fugitive
• Vim-surround
• Endwise
• ANSIesc
• Repeat
• Tagbar
• Vim-easymotion
• DelimitMate
• Syntastic
• NERDtree
• NERDCommenter
• Matchit
• Indexedsearch
• Yankring
• snipMATE
• CSapprox
• Markdown
• Supertab
• Vim-Rspec
• Vim-Ruby

Mappings and Bindings

• Leader is , and local leader is \

• Q wraps lines to 80 characters

• ,/ will toggle line comments

• Y will yank till the end of the line

• ,l will switch between the last buffer

• ,, will trigger easymotion (follow ,, with a motion key)

• ,h will clear any highlighting (for example, searches)

• f2 will toggle NERD Tree to open/close in a left vertical split

• f3 will toggle Taglist to open/close in a right vertical split

• f4 will toggle YankRing

• f5 will auto-indent the current buffer

• f6 will toggle spellcheck only within insert mode

• f7 will toggle code folding based on the indention

• f8 will toggle error window

• f9 will toggle Gundo

• f12 will toggle the line numbering system (relative or absolute)

• ,<tab> will toggle the scratch pad

• ss will make a horizontal split of the current buffer

• vv will make a vertical split of the current buffer

• Ctrl-{h,j,k,l} will shrink/expand splits

• H, J, K, L will move between splits

• ,A will run Rspec using the current file

• ,S will run Rspec using the current line

• ,f will open FuzzyFinder to look for files from the current buffers directory

• ,t will open FuzzyFinder to look for tags within the current buffer

• ,r will open FuzzyFinder to look for tags from all the open buffers

• ,b will open FuzzyFinder to look for buffers from the set of open buffers