paulpepper/vimrc

Vim config.

Installation

1. Check out the project as ~/.vim (assuming it doesn't currently exist).

Automatic Setup

Change into the newly created .vim directory and source the setup.sh script.

$ cd ~/.vim
$ source setup.sh

You're done.

Manual Setup

1. Get the project's submodules:

    $ cd .vim
    $ git submodule init
    $ git submodule update
   

2. Edit ~/.vimrc and add a line to source the file ~/.vim/vimrc

    :source ~/.vim/vimrc
   

3. Install pep8 and flake8:

    $ sudo apt-get install pep8 flake8
   

4. Create the directory in which Vim persistent undo data will be stored - persistence fails otherwise:

    $ mkdir ~/.vim-undo
   

The following are plugins that have previously been installed as Pathogen bundles, but through lack of use have been removed:

command-t
fugitive
git
gundo
makegreen
pydoc
py.test
rename
snipmate
supertab
surround
syntastic

When the above modules were being used it was necessary to perform the following additional actions:

1. Install ack:

    $ sudo apt-get install ack-grep
   

2. Add the following line to vimrc to locate the ack-grep command (already done in this repository's accompanying vimrc):

    let g:ackprg="ack-grep -H --nocolor --nogroup --column"
   

3. Avoid key-binding conflicts with Makegreen, change:

    "map <unique> <silent> <Leader>t :call MakeGreen()<cr>
   

   to

    map <unique> <silent> <Leader>g :call MakeGreen()<cr>
   

Add New Vim Plugin

Vim plugins are loaded by Pathogen and are installed and managed as git submodules. Add a new plugin by cloning the vim plugin into the bundle directory as follows:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/nvie/vim-flake8.git bundle/vim-flake8

Then commit the submodule changes (in this case .gitmodules will have been updated and the new package added):

$ git add -m "Added vim-flake8 plugin."