A Kick Ass Vim Development Environment.

Kick Ass Vim is a turn-key configuration for the Vim editor. KickAssVim runs on all major platforms:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

See the list of included plugins.

Kick Ass Vim relies on YouCompleteMe for autocompletion.

For best compatability, grab a font from Nerd Fonts. I use Hack.

The most common customizations (leader, font, colors, indenting) are in ~/.vim/vimrc

Installation:

Windows

All commands should be run in an administrator shell. You will need to restart your shell for new paths to take effect.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2017: Community Edition is free.
  • Include C++ for desktop development to get the compiler tools.
• Install Chocolatey and restart your shell (as administrator).
• Vim: choco install vim
• Ruby: choco install ruby
• Node: choco install nodejs
• The Silver Searcher choco install ag
• cmake: choco install cmake
• make: choco install make
• ctags: choco install ctags
• Python2: choco install python2
• curl: choco install curl
• .NET Framework 3.5: choco install dotnet3.5
• rake: gem install rake

Adjust Paths

• Download gtools
• Run the gtools installer as administrator
• use pathed to add pathed to your path. (Oooh, recursive):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\p-nand-q.com\GTools\pathed.exe" /append "C:\Program Files (x86)\p-nand-q.com\GTools" /user

• Restart your shell as administrator.
• cmake: pathed /append "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin" /user
• tsserver: pathed /append %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm /user
• MSBuild: pathed /append "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin" /user
  • OR if you are using the community edition of Visual Studio:
  • pathed /append "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin" /user
• restart your shell as administrator

Install

git clone git@github.com:alanstevens/KickAssVim.git %userprofile%\vimfiles
cd %userprofile%\vimfiles
rake

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Mac

Consider installing the ThoughtBot Laptop Script

Prerequisites

• xCode command line tools: xcode-select --install
• Homebrew
• Homebrew Cask
• Vim: brew install vim
• MacVim: brew cask install macvim
• Ruby: brew install ruby
• Rake: gem install rake
• Nodejs: brew install node
• Mono: brew install mono (for c# autocompletion)
• ctags: brew install ctags
• cmake: brew install cmake
• python headers: brew install python-dev
• curl: brew install curl

Install

git clone git@github.com:alanstevens/KickAssVim.git ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim
rake

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Ubuntu Linux

Prerequisites

• gvim: sudo apt install vim-gtk
• Vim 8 on Windows subsystem for Linux:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vim

• Mono (for C# autocompletion)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831E
echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mono-devel

• ruby: sudo apt install ruby-all-dev
• python headers: sudo apt install python-dev
• The Silver Searcher: sudo apt install silversearcher-ag
• Node:
  • Remove legacy package: sudo apt--purge remove node
  • nodejs: sudo apt install nodejs
  • If which node doesn't return a value, make sure the node command is available: sudo ln -s 'which nodejs' /usr/bin/node
• npm: sudo apt install npm
• curl: sudo apt install curl
• Cmake: sudo apt install build-essential cmake
• Ctags: sudo apt install ctags
• Rake: gem install rake --no-ri --no-rdoc
• Ruby file utils: gem install file-utils --no-ri --no-rdoc

Install

git clone git@github.com:alanstevens/KickAssVim.git ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim
sudo rake