pylight's vimrc

• Author: Sven K.
• Description: Yes! This is a vim configuration! =)
• Github: https://github.com/pylight/vimrc
• Forked from vgod. (awesome work, ty!)

INSTALL

1. Check out from github

    git clone git://github.com/pylight/vimrc.git ~/.vim
    cd ~/.vim
    git submodule update --init
   

2. Install ~/.vimrc

    ./install-vimrc.sh
   

UPGRADE PLUGIN BUNDLES

All plugins (except vim-latex) were checked out as git submodules, which can be upgraded with git pull. For example, to upgrade Nerdtree

 cd ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree
 git pull

To install a new plugin as a git submoudle, type the followin commands.

 cd ~/.vim
 git submodule add [GIT-REPOSITORY-URL] bundle/[PLUGIN-NAME]

HOW TO USE

see the "USEFUL SHORTCUTS" section in vimrc to learn my shortcuts.

PLUGINS

• Pathogen: easy plugin detection in ~/.vim/bludle/ dir.

• Nerd Tree: better tree explorer plugin.

  Useful commands:

  • :Bookmark [name] - bookmark any directory as name
  • :NERDTree [name] - open the bookmark [name] in Nerd Tree

• xmledit: XML/HTML tags will be completed automatically.

• vim-latex: Latex support.

• OmniCppComplete: C/C++ omni-completion with ctags database.

• JavaComplete: Java Omni-completion.

• EasyMotion: An easy way to jump to a word. (live search)

  Useful commands:

  • ,w forward EasyMotion
  • ,b backward EasyMotion

• fugitive.vim: git wrapper for vim

Language specific supports

• Latex: Read :help latex-suite.txt
• HTML, Javascript, Python, CSS, C, C++, Java: use TAB to do omni-completion.
• HTML/XML: End tags are automatically completed after typing a begin tag. (Typing > twice pushes the end tag to a new line.)

Other good references

• http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html
• http://spf13.com/post/perfect-vimrc-vim-config-file