The goal is to keep the configuration minimal.
I've been using janus for about a year and a half and have been happy with it, but since I installed it, I've been disabling plugins I don't use, to ensure good performance. Now, I've realized that only a handful are useful to me and decided to go over my vimrc files, pull out just the configuration I really use, organize it and create a minimal distro I can use across different machines.
On my MBP, circa 2009 (w/ ssd), I went from a noticable ~1.5-second load-time with janus to a snappy ~200ms with this setup; which, obviously, makes me happy.
The ~/.vimrc.before and ~/.vimrc.after files will be run before and after .vimrc is sourced respectively. The same will happen with the ~/.gvimrc.before and ~/.gvimrc.after files for .gvimrc. Feel free to add your customizations there.
- git
- Inconsolata-g font (for gvim/macvim) [optional]
Just run ./setup.sh. This will save your a back-up of your current vim config to ~/.vim_old_bkp_<timestamp>.
Also, since the script will create alises back to this dir, I recommend putting it somewhere you want to keep:
cd <DIR_YOU_WANT_TO_KEEP>
git clone https://github.com/nemtsov/tinyvim.git
cd tinyvim
./setup.sh
Configuration
- sets spaces, not tabs
- removes common annoyances
- (gvim) colorscheme, font, gui-config
Plugins
Take a look at the vimrc. It has list of the plugins (bundles) that this distribution includes.