tips

macOS

• Enable italic fonts in iTerm2, tmux and vim

  If you run into the error:

  tic: Can't open -
  

  Refer to tic doesn't read from STDIN and segfaults when adding terminfo to support italics in tmux

• guifont

  Source Code Pro Light suits MacVim better.

  set guifont=Source\ Code\ Pro\ Light:h13

Linux

• Building Vim from source

Windows

• How to get gvim to start maximised in Windows?

  " Put this line into UserConfig()
  autocmd GUIEnter * simalt ~x

General

• Profiling and Optimizing Vim

  • vim-plug, CursorHold and on-demand loading

• Is there any way to make :noh run after a couple seconds by itself?

Many plugins are not loaded to the runtime path until a certain condition is met, directed by the MP line containing on or on_ft. e.g. Consider the AsyncRun plugin within the programming layer, :help asyncrun will not load until AsyncRun is first called:

MP 'skywind3000/asyncrun.vim',        { 'on': ['AsyncRun!', 'AsyncRun'] }

fzf

If you want to let fzf search hidden files, please see here.

Programming fonts

• source-code-pro

• Iosevka

• FiraCode

• fantasque-sans

• https://www.google.com/get/noto/#serif-lgc

Nerd fonts

It's neccessary for vim-devicons.

brew cask install font-dejavusansmono-nerd-font
brew cask install font-fantasque-sans-mono
brew cask install font-fira-code
brew cask install font-firacode-nerd-font
brew cask install font-firacode-nerd-font-mono
brew cask install font-iosevka
brew cask install font-iosevka-nerd-font
brew cask install font-sourcecodepro-nerd-font

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts

Install a nerd font on Ubuntu

1. Download a Nerd Font from nerdfonts.com

2. Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts

3. Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

• https://gist.github.com/matthewjberger/7dd7e079f282f8138a9dc3b045ebefa0

Refer to:

• ProgrammingFonts
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/959nh0/your_favourable_font/

Firejail configuration (security sandboxing)

How to set up Firejail profile suitable for space-vim.