Installation

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/vincecarney/dotfiles.git

Where possible, Vim plugins are installed as git submodules. Check these out by running the commands:

cd dotfiles
git submodule update --init

Create symlinks:

ln -s ~/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
ln -s ~/dotfiles/global-gitignore ~/.gitignore

Flake8:

apt install python-flake8 python3-flake8

Vim Plugin Bundles

Plugins that are published on github can be installed as submodules. For example:

cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule add http://github.com/example/vim-foobar.git vim/bundle/vim-foobar

This will update the .gitmodules file by appending something like:

[submodule "vim/bundle/vim-foobar"]
    path = vim/bundle/vim-foobar
    url = http://github.com/example/vim-foobar.git

As well as checkout out the git repo into the vim/bundle/vim-foobar directory. You can then commit these changes as follows:

git add .
git commit -m "Added the foobar bundle"