Simple VIM Setting

Screenshot

Features

Pathogen: easy to install plugins and runtime files
Supertab: for all your insert completion needs
Syntastic: external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors
Auto Pairs: insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair
Snipmate: provide support for textual snippets
NERDTree: explore your file system and to open files and directories
MiniBufferExplorer: list all open buffers as tabs
Undotree: store the undo history
Tag List: an overview of the structure of source code files: class, filed, method
Vim-airline: provides statuslines and prompts
Vim-colors-solarized: colorscheme versions for Vim
Vim-fugitive: Integration with Git
Code folding
Show ALL white spaces as dot
Return to last edit position when opening files
Automatically insert file header when creating new files [.cpp,.[ch],.sh,.rb,.java,.py]
Compile and execute

Install

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rarezhang/simple_vim_setting/master/install.sh | sh -x

Uninstall

rm -rf ~/.vim ~/.vimrc

VIM Tips

###1. Under normal mode

:wq             - save and quit
i               - insert
x VIM           - delete character
dd              - delete line, copied in clipboard
p               - paste
y               - copy
:help <command> - look up help doc
:?<pattern>     - search backward
:Explore        - file explore

###2. Code folding inside a method and type ‘za’ to open and close a fold.

###3. Window splits

:e <filename>      - edit another file
:split <filename>  - Horizontal Split
:vsplit <filename> - vertical split

###4. Git

:Gwrite  - git add
:Gread   - git checkout
:Gremove - git rm
:Gmove   - git mv
:Gcommit - git commit

###5. Open undotree / NERDTree / taglist / indent line

<,undo>
<,tree>
<,tag>
<,line>

###6. Snipmate

any reserved words + <tab>
e.g., def<tab>

###7. Copy and paste

copy: + highlight the text + left mouse button
paste: + right mouse button

###8. Search and replace the selected text

<,r>

###9. Go to the next / previous search result

<,n>
<,p>

###10. Execute script

<F5>

###11. Auto completion <C-Space> - Completion <leader>g - Goto assignments (typical goto function) <leader>d - Goto definitions (follow identifier as far as possible, includes imports and statements) K- Show Documentation/Pydoc (shows a popup with assignments) <leader>rname - Renaming <leader>n - Usages (shows all the usages of a name) :Pyimport <module name> - Open module, e.g. opens the os module :Pyimport os B

Install from scratch

###1. Remove vim & re-install vim

sudo apt-get remove vim
sudo apt-get remove vim-runtime
sudo apt-get remove gvim
sudo apt-get remove vim-tiny
sudo apt-get remove vim-common
sudo apt-get remove vim-gui-common

sudo apt-get install vim
sudo apt-get install vim-doc vim-scripts

###2. Create vimrc file

mkdir ~/.vim && cd .vim
vi vimrc

Copy and paste all the content to .vimrc file.

###3. Install pathogen.vim

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

###4. Git and install plug-in

cd ~/.vim/
git init

####4.1 Supertab use for all your insert completion needs

git submodule add https://github.com/ervandew/supertab.git bundle/supertab

####4.2 Syntastic runs files through external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors to the user

git submodule add https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic.git bundle/syntastic

####4.3 Auto Pairs Insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair.

git submodule add https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs.git bundle/auto-pairs

####4.4 Snipmate provide support for textual snippets

git submodule add https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim.git bundle/snipmate

####4.5 NERDTree explore your file system and to open files and directories

git submodule add https://github.com/vim-scripts/The-NERD-tree.git bundle/nerdtree

####4.6 MiniBufferExplorer list all open buffers as tabs

git submodule add https://github.com/fholgado/minibufexpl.vim.git bundle/minibufexpl

####4.7 Undotree store the undo history

git submodule add https://github.com/mbbill/undotree.git bundle/undotree

####4.8 Tag List an overview of the structure of source code files: class, filed, method

git submodule add https://github.com/vim-scripts/taglist.vim.git bundle/taglist

####4.9 vim-airline a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications

git submodule add https://github.com/bling/vim-airline.git bundle/vim-airline

####4.10 Vim-colors-solarized colorscheme versions for Vim

git submodule add https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized.git bundle/vim-colors-solarized

####4.11 Vim-fugitive Integration with Git

git submodule add http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git bundle/fugitive

####4.12 Jedi-vim Python autocompletion

git submodule add https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim.git bundle/jedi-vim

####4.13 IndentLine displaying thin vertical lines at each indentation level

git submodule add https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine.git bundle/indentLine

####4.14 Update all

git submodule init
git submodule update
git submodule foreach git submodule init
git submodule foreach git submodule update

###5. move .vimrc to the directory .vim; create symbolic link to .vimrc

cd ~
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

###6 turn off the binding of ctrl-s and gets rid of any XOFF on scrren messages

cd ~
touch .bash_profile
vi .bash_profile

copy and paste below content to .bash_profile

#turn off the binding of ctrl-s and gets rid of any XOFF on scrren messages when pressng ctrl-s
bind -r '\C-s'
stty -ixon