vimconf: A Vim script repository from luochen1990

About this repo

This is the VIM conf I'm using. I don't think that there could be a "perfect" and "general" VIM configuration which can make everybody happy.

If there was, then you should ask why VIM is designed configurable, what's the differents between VIM and the other editors which can be used directly without VIM's "complex" configuration, and the most important question: why you are using VIM?

In my opnion, people loves VIM(Emacs) because it is flexible and configurable. If we hate some behavoirs of VIM, we can change it ourself instead of suffering and complaining, not because VIM increases our typing speed.

I created this repo just for myself, but there may be something you can reference. Just read it and create your own, do not copy it, copying helps nothing.

Properties

Multi Operating System Supported.
Screen scrolling optmized, reading with j & k is now coziness.
Smooth transition between a vim with default configuration.
Plugins' version also managed by git using git submodule.
Idle keys reasonably used.
Working Directory auto detect.
Most properties are useable for any type of files.
Other treaking hacking.

Try it

You can try it with the following steps:

git clone git@github.com:luochen1990/vimconf.git
put this directory 'vimconf' to whereever you like, such as your dropbox directory.
edit your vimrc so it looks like this (just replace the dropbox path 'D:/Dropbox/' to your own):

	let $vimconf = 'D:/Dropbox/vimconf'
	source $vimconf/vimrc

reboot your vim.
run :PlugInstall in Vim to install other plugins.
reboot your vim.

Dropbox Friendly

With .git directory in Dropbox directory will cause some headache problems. So you must want to move your git working directory to somewhere else outside of Dropbox directory. Here is my solution:

create file git-clone-ext.sh with the following content:

gitpath=$(echo $(pwd)/$2 | sed 's/\/[^/]*\/\.\.\/\|\/\.\//\//g' | sed 's/\/\+/\//g')
workpath=$(echo $(pwd)/$3 | sed 's/\/[^/]*\/\.\.\/\|\/\.\//\//g' | sed 's/\/\+/\//g')
echo $gitpath
echo $workpath
git --work-tree=$workpath clone --recursive $1 $gitpath && echo "gitdir: $gitpath" > $workpath/.git

then run some command like this in CLI:

sh git-clone-ext.sh git@github.com:luochen1990/vimconf.git ../github/vimconf.git ./config/vimconf

here is the meaning of the arguments of git-clone-ext.sh

$1: the url to clone
$2: the git repo directory
$3: the git working directory