Vim Setup

This is a complete vim configuration. It uses Pathogen to organise a number of different plugins inside the bundles directory. Most of those bundles are included as git submodules from other github repositories.

Requirements

• vim 7.3

Default settings:

• <Leader> maps to ,
• Line numbers are on
• Soft tabs using 4 spaces
• Solarized colorscheme

Included plugins

• Pathogen - for plugin management (in the autoload directory)
• ack
• command-t
• gundo
• nerdtree
• snipmate
• surround
• tabular
• and others, please refer to the bundle directory

Included colorschemes

• Solarized - preferred colorscheme, works well with light and dark backgrounds. Included as a Pathogen managed plugin.
• Molokai - for dark backgrounds
• Mac Classic - for light backgrounds
• and others, please refer to the colors directory

Installation:

0. Backup your existing .vim folder and rc files:

   for i in ~/.vim ~/.vimrc ~/.gvimrc; do [ -e $i ] && mv $i $i.old; done

1. Grab a copy of the repository and its submodules and install under ~/.vim

   git clone --recursive git://github.com/adrianocastro/dotvim.git ~/.vim

Create symlinks:

ln -s ~/.vim/config/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.vim/config/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Customisation

Local customisations can be added to ~/.vimrc.local and ~/.gvimrc.local.