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YADR - The best vim,git,zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen

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# Yet Another Dotfile Repo v1.1
# Now with Prezto and Vundle!

sh -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/skwp/dotfiles/master/install.sh`"

Always be sure to run rake update after pulling to ensure plugins are updated

This is a collection of best of breed tools from across the web, from scouring other people's dotfile repos, blogs, and projects.

What is YADR?

YADR is an opinionated dotfile repo that will make your heart sing

  • OSX is the best OS. MacVim is the best editor. Zsh is the best shell. Pry is the best irb. Solarized is the best color scheme.
  • Apple-style philosophy: make everything Just Work and Look Good. Don't worry about too many options.
  • All common commands should be two and three character mnemonic aliases - less keystrokes, RSI reduction
  • Avoid stressful hand motions, e.g. remap Esc to caps lock key, remap underscore to Alt-k in vim, make window management in vim easy.
  • Easy to use plugin architecture, no config files to edit.
  • Pick one tool and use it everywhere: vim-ize everything
  • Beautiful, easy to read and small vimrc**
  • No key overrides or custom hackery in vimrc, everything in well factored snippets in .vim/settings**
  • Much larger list of vim plugins than Janus, specifically geared to Ruby/Rails/Git development.
  • Optimized support for Solarized color scheme only, everything guaranteed to Look Good. Your eyes will thank you.
  • All plugins tested with Solarized and custom color maps provided where needed to ensure your eyes will not bleed.
  • No configuration file to maintain. YADR uses tiny ruby scripts to wrap git submodule maintenance.
  • Much cleaner vimrc that keps keymaps isolated to a plugin file (not in the main vimrc).
  • All keymaps and customization in small, easy to maintain files under .vim/settings
  • More than just vim plugins - great shell aliases, osx, and irb/pry tweaks to make you more productive.

Screenshot

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Installation

Installation is automated via rake and the yadr command. To get started please run:

sh -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/skwp/dotfiles/master/install.sh`"

Note: YADR will automatically install all of its subcomponents. If you want to be asked about each one, use:

sh -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/skwp/dotfiles/master/install.sh`" -s ask

Additional Installation

The escape key is the single most used key in vim. Old keyboards used to have Ctrl where caps lock is today. But it's even better if you put escape there. If you're hitting a small target in the corner, you are slowing yourself down considerably, and probably damaging your hands with repetitive strain injuries.

Upgrading

Upgrading is easy.

cd ~/.yadr
git pull origin master
rake update

What's included, and how to customize?

Read on to learn what YADR provides!

Homebrew

Homebrew is the missing package manager for OSX. Installed automatically.

We automatically install a few useful packages including ctags, git, and hub, and the silver searcher ('ag') You can install macvim from brew as well, or download it from their website.

Github Issues: ghi gem

We include the ghi command. Try ghi list and have fun managing issues from command line!

Ruby Debugger

This plugin is optional and not included. It's used to give you visual IDE-style debugging within vim, combined with the debugger-xml gem. To install:

gem install debugger-xml

ZSH

After a lifetime of bash, I am now using ZSH as my default shell because of its awesome globbing and autocomplete features (the spelling fixer autocomplete is worth the money alone).

Migrating from bash to zsh is essentially pain free. The zshrc provided here restores a few features that I felt was 'broken' including Ctrl-R reverse history search.

Lots of things I do every day are done with two or three character mnemonic aliases. Please feel free to edit them:

ae # alias edit
ar # alias reload

Prezto

For a more complete Zsh experience we use Prezto. Prezto is included as a submodule.

Adding your own ZSH theme

If you want to add your own zsh theme, you can place it into ~/.zsh.prompts and it will automatically be picked up by the prompt loader.

Make sure you follow the naming convention of prompt_[name]_setup

touch ~/.zsh.prompts/prompt_mytheme_setup

See also the Prezto project for more info on themes.

Customizing ZSH & Picking a theme

If you want to customize your zsh experience, yadr provides two hooks via ~/.zsh.after/ and ~/.zsh.before/ directories. In these directories, you can place files to customize things that load before and after other zsh customizations that come from ~/.yadr/zsh/*

For example, to override the theme, you can do something like this:

echo "prompt yourprompt" > ~/.zsh.after/prompt.zsh

Next time you load your shell, this file will be read and your prompt will be the youprompt prompt. Use prompt -l to see the available prompts.

Included ZSH Customizations

  • Vim mode
  • Bash style ctrl-R for reverse history finder
  • Ctrl-x,Ctrl-l to insert output of last command
  • Fuzzy matching - if you mistype a directory name, tab completion will fix it
  • fasd integration - hit z and partial match for recently used directory. Tab completion enabled.
  • Syntax highlighting as you type commands
  • Lots more!

Pry

Pry offers a much better out of the box IRB experience with colors, tab completion, and lots of other tricks. You can also use it as an actual debugger on MRI 1.9.2+ by installing pry-debugger.

Learn more about YADR's pry customizations and how to install

Git Configuration

You can customize the standard Git configuration in ~/.gitconfig.user. Any configuration in this file will override the default configuration.

It is recommended to use this file to set your user info. Alternately, you can set the appropriate environment variables in your ~/.secrets.

Git Customizations:

  • git l - a much more usable git log
  • git b - a list of branches with summary of last commit
  • git r - a list of remotes with info
  • git t - a list of tags with info
  • git nb - a (n)ew (b)ranch - like checkout -b
  • git cp - cherry-pick -x (showing what was cherrypicked)
  • git changelog - a nice format for creating changelogs
  • Some sensible default configs, such as improving merge messages, push only pushes the current branch, removing status hints, and using mnemonic prefixes in diff: (i)ndex, (w)ork tree, (c)ommit and (o)bject
  • Slightly improved colors for diff
  • git unstage (remove from index) and git uncommit (revert to the time prior to the last commit - dangerous if already pushed) aliases

RubyGems

A .gemrc is included. Never again type gem install whatever --no-ri --no-rdoc. --no-ri --no-rdoc is done by default.

Tmux configuration

tmux.conf provides some sane defaults for tmux on Mac OS, a powerful status bar and vim keybindings. You can customize the configuration in ~/.tmux.conf.user.

Vimization of everything

The provided inputrc and editrc will turn your various command line tools like mysql and irb into vim prompts. There's also an included Ctrl-R reverse history search feature in editrc, very useful in irb.

Vim Configuration

The .vimrc is well commented and broken up by settings. I encourage you to take a look and learn some of my handy aliases, or comment them out if you don't like them, or make your own.

Vim Keymaps

The files in vim/settings are customizations stored on a per-plugin basis. The main keymap is available in skwp-keymap.vim, but some of the vim files contain key mappings as well (TODO: probably will move them out to skwp-keymap.vim)

Debugging vim keymappings

If you are having unexpected behavior, wondering why a particular key works the way it does, use: :map [keycombo] (e.g. :map <C-\>) to see what the key is mapped to. For bonus points, you can see where the mapping was set by using :verbose map [keycombo]. If you omit the key combo, you'll get a list of all the maps. You can do the same thing with nmap, imap, vmap, etc.

Navigation

  • ,z - go to previous buffer (:bp)
  • ,x - go to next buffer (:bn)
  • Cmd-j and Cmd-k to move up and down roughly by functions
  • Ctrl-o - Old cursor position - this is a standard mapping but very useful, so included here
  • Ctrl-i - opposite of Ctrl-O (again, this is standard)

Rails

  • Cmd-Shift-R to use vim-ruby-conque to run a spec file. Cmd-Shift-L to run from a line (individual it block), ,Cmd-Shift-R to rerun the last run command (great for re-running specs)
  • :Rspec1 and :Rspec2 to switch between rspec versions for the vim-ruby-conque runner
  • ,vv and ,cc to switch between view and controller

Surround.vim customizations

  • in settings/surround.vim (this folder contains all my customizations)
  • the # key now surrounds with #{}, so ysaw# (surround around word) #{foo}
  • = surrounds with <%= erb tag %>; - for <% this %>. So, yss= or yss- to wrap code

Search/Code Navigation

  • ,f - instantly Find definition of class (must have exuberant ctags installed)
  • ,F - same as ,f but in a vertical split
  • ,gf or Ctrl-f - same as vim normal gf (go to file), but in a vertical split (works with file.rb:123 line numbers also)
  • gF - standard vim mapping, here for completeness (go to file at line number)
  • K - GitGrep the current word under the cursor and show results in quickfix window
  • ,K - GitGrep the current word up to next exclamation point (useful for ruby foo! methods)
  • Cmd-* - highlight all occurrences of current word (similar to regular * except doesn't move)
  • ,hl - toggle search highlight on and off
  • ,gg - GitGrep command line, type between quotes
  • ,gd - GitGrep def (greps for 'def [function name]') when cursor is over the function name
  • ,gcp - GitGrep Current Partial to find references to the current view partial
  • ,gcf - GitGrep Current File to find references to the current file
  • // - clear the search
  • ,T - Tag list (list of methods in a class)
  • Ctrl-s - Open related spec in a split. Similar to :A and :AV from rails.vim but is also aware of the fast_spec dir and faster to type
  • ,,w (alias ,<esc>) or ,,b (alias ,<shift-esc>) - EasyMotion, a vimperator style tool that highlights jump-points on the screen and lets you type to get there.

File Navigation

  • ,t - CtrlP fuzzy file selector
  • ,b - CtrlP buffer selector
  • Cmd-Shift-M - jump to method - CtrlP tag search within current buffer
  • ,jm jump (via CtrlP) to app/models
  • ,jc app/controllers
  • ,jv app/views
  • ,jh app/helpers
  • ,jl lib
  • ,jp public
  • ,js spec
  • ,jf fast_spec
  • ,jt test
  • ,jd db
  • ,jC config
  • ,jV vendor
  • ,jF factories
  • Cmd-Shift-P - Clear CtrlP cache
  • :Bopen [gem name] to navigate to a gem (@tpope/vim-bundler)

RSI-reduction

  • Cmd-Space to autocomplete. Tab for snipmate snippets.
  • Cmd-k and Cmd-d to type underscores and dashes (use Shift), since they are so common in code but so far away from home row
  • Ctrl-l to insert a => hashrocket (thanks @garybernhardt)
  • ,. to go to last edit location (same as '.) because the apostrophe is hard on the pinky
  • ,ci to change inside any set of quotes/brackets/etc
  • ,# ," ,' ,] ,) ,} to surround a word in these common wrappers. the # does #{ruby interpolation}. works in visual mode (thanks @cj)
  • Cmd-', Cmd-", Cmd-], Cmd-), etc to change content inside those surrounding marks. You don't have to be inside them.

Tab Navigation

  • Use Cmd-1 thru Cmd-9 to switch to a specific tab number (like iTerm) - and tabs have been set up to show numbers

Window Navigation

  • Ctrl-h,l,j,k - to move left, right, down, up between windows
  • Q - Intelligent Window Killer. Close window wincmd c if there are multiple windows to same buffer, or kill the buffer bwipeout if this is the last window into it.

Splits

  • vv - vertical split (Ctrl-w,v)
  • ss - horizontal split (Ctrl-w,s)
  • ,qo - open quickfix window (this is where output from GitGrep goes)
  • ,qc - close quickfix

NERDTree Project Tree

  • Cmd-Shift-N - NERDTree toggle
  • Ctrl-\ - Show current file tree

Utility

  • ,orb - outer ruby block. takes you one level up from nested blocks (great for rspec)
  • crs, crc, cru via abolish.vim, coerce to snake_case, camelCase, and UPPERCASE. There are more :help abolish
  • :NR - NarrowRgn - use this on a bit of selected text to create a new split with just that text. Do some work on it, then :wq it to get the results back.
  • ,ig - toggle visual indentation guides
  • ,cf - Copy Filename of current file (full path) into system (not vi) paste buffer
  • ,cn - Copy Filename of current file (name only, no path)
  • ,vc - (Vim Command) copies the command under your cursor and executes it in vim. Great for testing single line changes to vimrc.
  • ,vr - (Vim Reload) source current file as a vim file
  • ,yw - yank a word from anywhere within the word (so you don't have to go to the beginning of it)
  • ,ow - overwrite a word with whatever is in your yank buffer - you can be anywhere on the word. saves having to visually select it
  • ,ocf - open changed files (stolen from @garybernhardt). open all files with git changes in splits
  • ,w - strip trailing whitespaces
  • sj - split a line such as a hash {:foo => {:bar => :baz}} into a multiline hash (j = down)
  • sk - unsplit a link (k = up)
  • ,he - Html Escape
  • ,hu - Html Unescape
  • ,hp - Html Preview (open in Safari)
  • Cmd-Shift-A - align things (type a character/expression to align by, works in visual mode or by itself)
  • :ColorToggle - turn on #abc123 color highlighting (useful for css)
  • :gitv - Git log browsers
  • ,hi - show current Highlight group. if you don't like the color of something, use this, then use hi! link [groupname] [anothergroupname] in your vimrc.after to remap the color. You can see available colors using :hi
  • ,yr - view the yankring - a list of your previous copy commands. also you can paste and hit ctrl-p for cycling through previous copy commands
  • ,gt - Go Tidy - tidy up your html code (works on a visual selection)

Ruby Debugger

  • Visual ruby debugger included. All keys remapped to ,d(something) such as ,dn for Debugger Next or ,dv for Debugger Variables. Use :help ruby-debugger for more info, but keep in mind the new key maps (see vim/settings/vim-ruby-debugger.vim)

Comments

  • Cmd-/ - toggle comments (usually gcc from tComment)
  • gcp (comment a paragraph)

Wrapping

  • :Wrap - wrap long lines (e.g. when editing markdown files).
  • Cmd-[j, k, $, 0, ^] - navigate display lines.

Included vim plugins

Navigation

  • NERDTree - everyone's favorite tree browser
  • NERDTree-tabs - makes NERDTree play nice with MacVim tabs so that it's on every tab
  • ShowMarks - creates a visual gutter to the left of the number column showing you your marks
  • EasyMotion - hit , (forward) or , (back) and watch the magic happen. Just type the letters and jump directly to your target - in the provided vimrc the keys are optimized for home row mostly. Using @skwp modified EasyMotion which uses vimperator-style two character targets.
  • TagBar - hit ,T to see a list of methods in a class (uses ctags)
  • CtrlP - ,t to find a file
  • Visual-star-search - make the * (star) search in visual mode behave like expected: searching for the whole selection instead of just the word under the cursor.

Git

  • fugitive - "a git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal...". Try Gstatus and hit - to toggle files. Git d to see a diff. Learn more: http://vimcasts.org/blog/2011/05/the-fugitive-series/
  • gitv - use :gitv for a better git log browser
  • GitGrep - much better than the grep provided with fugitive; use :GitGrep or hit K to grep current word

Colors

  • AnsiEsc - inteprets ansi color codes inside log files. great for looking at Rails logs
  • solarized - a color scheme scientifically calibrated for awesomeness (including skwp mods for ShowMarks)
  • Powerline - beautiful vim status bar. Requires patched fonts (installed from fonts/ directory)

Coding

  • tComment - gcc to comment a line, gcp to comment blocks, nuff said
  • rails.vim - syntax highlighting, gf (goto file) enhancements, and lots more. should be required for any rails dev
  • rake.vim - like rails.vim but for non-rails projects. makes :Rtags and other commands just work
  • ruby.vim - lots of general enhancements for ruby dev
  • necomplcache - intelligent and fast complete as you type, and added Command-Space to select a completion (same as Ctrl-N)
  • snipMate - offers textmate-like snippet expansion + scrooloose-snippets . try hitting TAB after typing a snippet
  • jasmine.vim - support for jasmine javascript unit testing, including snippets for it, before, etc..
  • vim-javascript-syntax, vim-jquery - better highlighting
  • TagHighlight - highlights class names and method names
  • vim-coffeescript - support for coffeescript, highlighting
  • vim-stylus - support for stylus css language
  • vim-bundler - work with bundled gems
  • vim-ruby-debugger - visual IDE-style debugger. Use :help ruby-debugger or :Rdebugger and ,dn to step

TextObjects

The things in this section provide new "objects" to work with your standard verbs such as yank/delete/change/=(codeformat), etc

  • textobj-rubyblock - ruby blocks become vim textobjects denoted with r. try var/vir to select a ruby block, dar/dir for delete car/cir for change, =ar/=ir for formatting, etc
  • vim-indentobject - manipulate chunks of code by indentation level (great for yaml) use vai/vii to select around an indent block, same as above applies
  • argtextobj - manipulation of function arguments as an "a" object, so vaa/via, caa/cia, daa/dia, etc..
  • textobj-datetime - gives you da (date), df (date full) and so on text objects. useable with all standard verbs
  • vim-textobj-entire - gives you e for entire document. so vae (visual around entire document), and etc
  • vim-textobj-rubysymbol - gives you : textobj. so va: to select a ruby symbol. da: to delete a symbol..etc
  • vim-textobj-function - gives you f textobj. so vaf to select a function
  • vim-textobj-function-javascript - same as above, but for javascript functions
  • vim-textobj-underscore - gives you _ textobj. So vi_ selects what's inside a pair of underscores
  • next-textobject - from Steve Losh, ability to use n such as vinb (visual inside (n)ext set of parens)
  • textobj-word-column - gives you c (word) and C (WORD) for handling columns/blocks.

Utils

  • SplitJoin - easily split up things like ruby hashes into multiple lines or join them back together. Try :SplitjoinJoin and :SplitjoinSplit or use the bindings sj(split) and sk(unsplit) - mnemonically j and k are directions down and up
  • tabularize - align code effortlessly by using :Tabularize /[character] to align by a character, or try the keymaps
  • yankring - effortless sanity for pasting. every time you yank something it goes into a buffer. after hitting p to paste, use ctrl-p or ctrl-n to cycle through the paste options. great for when you accidentally overwrite your yank with a delete.
  • surround - super easy quote and tag manipulation - ysiw" - sourround inner word with quotes. ci"' - change inner double quotes to single quotes, etc
  • greplace - use :Gsearch to find across many files, replace inside the changes, then :Greplace to do a replace across all matches - made lightning fast with Silver Searcher
  • ConqueTerm - embedded fully colorful shell inside your vim
  • vim-ruby-conque - helpers to run ruby,rspec,rake within ConqueTerm
  • vim-markdown-preview - :Mm to view your README.md as html
  • html-escape - ,he and ,hu to escape and unescape html
  • ruby-debug-ide - not quite working for me, but maybe it will for you. supposedly a graphical debugger you can step through
  • Gundo - visualize your undos - pretty amazing plugin. Hit ,u with my keymappings to trigger it, very user friendly
  • slime - use ctrl-c,ctrl-c to send text to a running irb/pry/console. To start the console, you must use screen with a named session: "screen -S [name] [cmd]", ex: "screen -S pry pry"
  • vim-indent-guides - visual indent guides, off by default
  • color_highlight - use :ColorCodes to see hex colors highlighted
  • change-inside-surroundings - change content inside delimiters like quotes/brackets
  • Specky - used for color highlighting rspec correctly even if specs live outside of spec/ (rails.vim doesn't handle this)
  • Ag - use :Ag to search across multiple files. Faster than Grep and Ack.
  • vim-session: use :SaveSession and :OpenSession to come back to your saved window layout

General enhancements that don't add new commands

  • IndexedSearch - when you do searches will show you "Match 2 of 4" in the status line
  • delimitMate - automatically closes quotes
  • SearchComplete - tab completion in the / search window
  • syntastic - automatic syntax checking when you save the file
  • repeat - adds . (repeat command) support for complex commands like surround.vim. i.e. if you perform a surround and hit ., it will Just Work (vim by default will only repeat the last piece of the complex command)
  • endwise - automatically closes blocks (if/end)
  • autotag - automatically creates tags for fast sourcecode browsing. use ctrl-[ over a symbol name to go to its definition
  • matchit - helps with matching brackets, improves other plugins
  • sass-status - decorates your status bar with full nesting of where you are in the sass file

Overriding vim settings

You may use ~/.vimrc.before for settings like the leader setting. You may ~/.vimrc.after (for those transitioning from janus) or in ~/.yadr/vim/after/.vimrc.after for any additional overrides/settings. If you didn't have janus before, it is recommended to just put it in ~/.yadr/vim/after so you can better manage your overrides.

Adding your own vim plugins

YADR comes with a dead simple plugin manager that just uses vundles and submodules, without any fancy config files.

Add a plugin

yav -u https://github.com/airblade/vim-rooter

Delete a plugin

ydv -u airblade/vim-rooter

The aliases (yav=yadr vim-add-plugin), (ydp=yadr vim-delete-plugin) and (yuv=yadr vim-update-all-plugins) live in the aliases file. You can then commit the change. It's good to have your own fork of this project to do that.

Miscellaneous

OSX Hacks

The osx file is a bash script that sets up sensible defaults for devs and power users under osx. Read through it before running it. To use:

./osx

These hacks are Lion-centric. May not work for other OS'es. My favorite mods include:

  • Ultra fast key repeat rate (now you can scroll super quick using j/k)
  • No disk image verification (downloaded files open quicker)
  • Display the ~/Library folder in finder (hidden in Lion)

Other recommended OSX tools

  • NValt - Notational Velocity alternative fork - http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/ - syncs with SimpleNote
  • Vimium for Chrome - vim style browsing. The f to type the two char alias of any link is worth it.
  • QuickCursor - gives you Apple-Shift-E to edit any OSX text field in vim.

Credits

I can't take credit for all of this. The vim files are a combination of work by tpope, scrooloose, and many hours of scouring blogs, vimscripts, and other places for the cream of the crop of vim awesomeness.

And everything that's in the modules included in vim/bundle of course. Please explore these people's work.

Contributors

Yadr is made possible by many awesome people, too many to list :) But here are a few of the bigger contributors and core committers.

For more tips and tricks

Follow my blog: http://yanpritzker.com

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