Dubs Vim — Appearance Plugin

About This Plugin

This plugin configures the appearance of Vim.

The beautiful Hack Regular 9 font, falling back to Courier New 9.
A 3-Column wide grey vertical long-line indicator over columns 78-80.
- See dubs_edit_juice's <F2> mappings for paragraph formatting.
Use <Ctrl-c> to exit Insert mode, and to enter Command mode, same as <ESC>.
Use <Ctrl-c> to copy text in the command-line window.
Enable syntax highlighting.
Show line numbers.
Show new buffers with all folds open.

(Hint: Use <zR> and <zM> to open and close all folds, respectively, and <zA> to toggle a single fold).
Better search defaults:
- Case-insensitive searching and matching (:smartcase).
- Enable search term highlighting (:hlsearch).
- Highlight search results as the keyword is typed (:incsearch).
Enable modeline: Vim will read modelines at the head or tail, like vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl:, and set itself accordingly.
Enable :autoindent and :smartindent.
- And enable loading indent/ files.
Enable :wildmenu, a/k/a, Vim command line tab completion.
Show the status line and rule.
Break longs lines on word boundaries.
Make a close a close. The default Gvim menu behavior for File < Close (<Alt-f> <c>) just hides the buffer. Close the file in addition.
Rewire File > Close (<Alt-f> <c>) so that it closes the buffer, too.
Rewire File > Save All (<Alt-f> <l>) to save all files.
- To allow us, File > Split-Open is remapped (to <Alt-f> <t>).
Use Window > New V-Split (<Alt-w> <s>) to open a new buffer in a new window to the right of the current window.
Add File > Close All (<Alt-f> <e>) to close all files / delete all buffers.

If you Close All and then Exit (<Alt-f> <x>), because there's only one, empty buffer, Vim will delete Session.vim. This is useful if you've edited a ~/.vim/* script and want to reload it; otherwise, if a Session file exists, Vim will just read it and ignore other stuff.

Save the current Session on exit; restore it on open.

To clear the session -- e.g., after editing any Vim file -- type

<Alt-f> <e>, and then <Alt-f> <x>.
- The first command
  
  closes all files, deletes all buffers, and removes the Session file.
- The second command quits Vim.
When you restart Vim, it'll start with a fresh Session file and load any Vim edits you made.
Set the *.swp file :directory to $HOME/.vim_backups/
Disable backups (set :nobackup).

You should use <Ctrl-s> or <Alt-f> <Alt-l> frequently.

And commit to Git often. Do other things often.

Disable the frakking bell.

The plugin also improves upon the default color scheme.

White background with black text, and non-distracting grey line numbers.
Slash / and Star * Searches are highlighted with a green background.
Change line numbers color from deep red (default) to dark grey.
Remove distracting vertical split line between adjacent windows.
Or, if you have Dubs After Dark installed, this plugin will load the after-dark color scheme.

See the source for a few other settings and more comments.

Installation

Installation is easy using the packages feature (see :help packages).

To install the package so that it will automatically load on Vim startup, use a start directory, e.g.,

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/landonb/start
cd ~/.vim/pack/landonb/start

If you want to test the package first, make it optional instead (see :help pack-add):

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/landonb/opt
cd ~/.vim/pack/landonb/opt

Clone the project to the desired path:

git clone https://github.com/landonb/dubs_appearance.git

If you installed to the optional path, tell Vim to load the package:

:packadd! dubs_appearance

Just once, tell Vim to build the online help:

:Helptags

Then whenever you want to reference the help from Vim, run:

:help dubs-appearance

Appearance Commands

This script does not define any commands.