This repository contains my vimfiles, plugins, etc.
It can be cloned directly into a system's ~/.vim folder.
If that folder is non-empty, git will prevent you from cloning into it, so you'll have to do the init-new-repo-fetch-then-reset-hard shenanigans.
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim
$ cd ~/.vim
$ git clone <this_repo> .
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim
$ cd ~/.vim
$ git init
$ git remote add origin <this_repo>
$ git fetch
$ git reset --hard origin/master
// add or ignore the original files
Plug-ins are installed using Tim Pope's Pathogen. I include some plugins as git submodules, so it's optional to install any of them.
On windoze, the gvim installation typically expects a
folder vimfiles instead of .vim. The vimrc in this
repo changes that location to .vim for you, but you must
still source that vimrc because the installation still
expects to use %HOME%/_vimrc. Add this line to the
top of that file:
source $HOME/.vim/vimrc
assuming that $HOME on your system is set appropriately.
(Otherwise, try the Windows user directory,
typically found at %USERPROFILE%)
_vimrc is sometimes name .vimrc, depending on the install