Dbakker's Vim settings

Hope you find something useful!

Installing on Linux

First install GVim, git and optional dependencies:

sudo pacman -S gvim git ctags curl ack python2
sudo apt-get install -y vim vim-gtk git exuberant-ctags perl python2 curl
sudo apt-get install -y silversearcher-ag par python-pip pandoc xclip jq

Install my settings:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbakker/vimfiles ~/.vim
vim +Helptags +qall

It's also possible to install and run from a different location:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbakker/vimfiles ~/.dbakker-vim
vim -u ~/.dbakker-vim/vimrc

Install optional linters for Syntastic:

sudo apt-get install -y devscripts  # for "checkbashims"
sudo pip install pep8 flake8 autopep8

Plugin architecture

I commit the contents of plugins under bundle/ (instead of fetching them during install), this has 4 benefits:

1. It makes it possible to get all settings using just a simple git clone.
2. Plugins are automatically "locked" at a specific revision (similar to git submodules)
3. It doesn't matter if a source repository is down, rebased or deleted.

In short, you always have working versions of plugins.

Setting up CTags for standard libraries

This configuration automatically looks in ~/.vim.local/tags/[language] when working on a code of that language. This is useful for having a quick look at the description or implementation of something out of a standard library.

These options are optimized on the fact that the sources won't change and that we are not interested in their private variables/methods:

cd ~/.vim.local/tags
ctags -o python --excmd=number --python-kinds=-i -R path\to\python\lib
ctags -o java --excmd=number --file-scope=no --java-kinds=-p -R path\to\java\source

Setting file/folder specific scripts

Vim searches for file/folder specific scripts to execute. To edit or create one, use :EditScript or :EditScript file/folder. Scripts created for a specific folder will be executed whenever one of its files is opened. The scripts themselves will be stored in the ~/.vim/local directory so they won't clutter your filesystem.

This feature can be used to override settings, e.g.:

let b:projectroot='/path/' " Override the path detected by GuessProjectRoot
setl tags^=/path/tags
setl bufhidden=delete " Useful for documentation that you don't need to keep open
setl textwidth=79
setl tabstop=2 softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2
setl noexpandtab
Wrap

Note that for indentation related settings, editorconfig <https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-vim> seems like a decent alternative.

For scavengers

Some cool places for more snippets:

• Reddit's Vim subreddit
• Vim Tips Wiki
• Tpope dotfiles
• Spf13 vimfiles
• AndrewRadev vimfiles