Tested on Debian 8.
sudo apt-get -y install ack-grep exuberant-ctags git vim
git clone https://github.com/lofic/dotvim.git dotvim
cd dotvim
./apply.shTested on RHEL and Centos 7
You need some recent packages for vim, flake8, dejavu fonts...
sudo yum -y install ack ctags git vim-common \
dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-sans-mono-fonts \
libicu-devel \
python-flake8 # EPEL 7
git clone https://github.com/lofic/dotvim.git dotvim
cd dotvim
./apply.sh
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Download from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
Type of install : typical.
Download from http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
In the zip file, you only need ctags.exe
It needs to be in the PATH. Put it for example in %windir%
Download the dotvim repository available at https://github.com/lofic/dotvim in a zip file.
Extract it.
Copy dotvimrc to _vimrc in your home directory.
Copy dotvim to vimfiles in your home directory.
Copy bundle to vimfiles/bundle in your home directory.
You can get the value of the home directory in vim by doing :
:echo $HOME
Or at the command line in Windows :
echo %UserProfile%
DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline.ttf is needed for the nice looking powerline
symbols to appear in the airline status line.
Click Start, and then click Run.
Type the following command, and then click OK:
%windir%\fonts
On the File menu, click Install New Font.
Browse to the dotvim/fonts folder (from the zip extract above) and install the available font.
Why everything is always so painful on Windows ?
Install vim like described above.
Install ctags.exe like described above.
Install git.
Download git from http://msysgit.github.io/ and install it.
During the installation process, choose : Run git from the Windows Command Prompt
Then :
SET COPYCMD=/Y
cd "%UserProfile%"
rmdir dotvim /S /Q
rmdir vimfiles /S /Q
git clone https://github.com/lofic/dotvim.git dotvim
copy dotvim\dotvimrc _vimrc
copy dotvim\dotctags ctags.cnf
mkdir vimfiles
xcopy dotvim\dotvim vimfiles /S
mkdir vimfiles\bundle
xcopy dotvim\bundle vimfiles\bundle /S
copy "dotvim\fonts\DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline.ttf" %windir%\fonts
regedit /s dotvim\fonts\dejavu_powerline.reg
Unfortunately at this point you still need a reboot for the font to be taken into consideration by the system.
.vimrc, with favorite settings, key mappings, custom commands and comments.
The installed release versions are listed in bundle/releases.
Better search in source code directories.
From https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
Needed by snipmate.
From https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-mw-utils
Nice and pretty status/tabline. The pretty layout needs a specific powerline font.
From https://github.com/bling/vim-airline
Syntax highlighter for AsciiDoc (a lightweight markup language for text based document generation).
From AsciiDoc, last changed in AsciiDoc 8.2.0 ATOW.
My own customizations for asciidoc. Create/edit a revision history; build the pdf document; show the pdf output.
From https://github.com/lofic/asciitune
Inserts matching bracket, paren, brace or quote
From https://github.com/vim-scripts/AutoClose
Full path fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder written in pure Vimscript (unlike command-t, so it runs everywhere straight away).
From https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim/
Provides syntax highlighting, indenting, and a filetype plugin for Cucumber, the acceptance testing framework.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-cucumber
Deletes whitespace at the end of each line, on demand or automatically.
From https://github.com/vim-scripts/DeleteTrailingWhitespace
Drag visual blocks around.
From https://github.com/thoughtstream/Damian-Conway-s-Vim-Setup/blob/master/plugin/dragvisuals.vim
Demo : Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013
Automated tag file generation and syntax highlighting of tags in Vim. Jump to the definition of any identifier using the Control-] mapping.
From https://github.com/xolox/vim-easytags
Helps to end certain structures automatically, for ruby, bash, etc.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-endwise
Pyflakes, Pep8 and mccabe code complexity checker for Vim, bundled with latest libraries for easy installation.
From https://github.com/andviro/flake8-vim
Adjust Gvim font size via keypresses.
From https://github.com/drmikehenry/vim-fontsize
A Git wrapper.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
v2 is needed to display the current Git branch with the airline plugin.
Python autocompletion and pydoc support.
From https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim
Syntax highlighting for json. Distinct highlighting of keywords vs values, JSON-specific (non-JS) warnings, quote concealing.
From https://github.com/elzr/vim-json
MCollective ddl snippets. See the snipmate plugin below for a definition of snippet.
From https://raw.github.com/puppetlabs/marionette-collective/master/ext/vim
MediaWiki/Wikimedia syntax highlighting and snippets.
From https://github.com/atdt/vim-mediawiki
Elegant buffer explorer.
From https://github.com/techlivezheng/vim-plugin-minibufexpl
Requirement for the easytags plugin.
From https://github.com/xolox/vim-misc
A file tree explorer.
From https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
Syntax highlighting for Octopress post and page files. Both Markdown and Textile modes are supported.
From https://github.com/tangledhelix/vim-octopress
Plugin management.Makes it super easy to install plugins and runtime files in their own private directories.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
Syntax highlighting and other stuff for puppet.
From https://github.com/ajf/puppet-vim
Note : I should give a try to https://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet
Changes the working directory to the project root (in particular for VCS projects) when you open a file.
From https://github.com/airblade/vim-rooter
Syntax highlighting; automatic, smart indenting; compiler plugins; auto completion for Ruby.
From https://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby
A color scheme scroller/chooser/browser.
From https://github.com/vim-scripts/ScrollColors
Provides some snippet features. A snippet is a trigger word that will automatically expand to a full block of code or a piece of often-typed text. You can set variables in the snippets.
From https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
Collection of snipmate snippets for various programming languages. See snipmate above.
From https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets
Provides mappings to easily delete, change and add surroundings (parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more) in pairs.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
Runs files through external syntax checkers then highlights and displays any resulting errors.
From https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
Text filtering and alignment. Nice for code, tables and data structures.
From https://github.com/godlygeek/tabular
Browse the tags of source code files. It provides a sidebar that displays the ctags-generated tags of the current file, ordered by scope (i.e. classes, methods, functions...).
From https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar
A source code browser plugin. Uses exuberant ctags to parse source code files.
From http://sourceforge.net/projects/vim-taglist/
Needed by snipmate.
From https://github.com/tomtom/tlib_vim
I use it for bubbling text (exchange lines, line up or down), but it provides many more mapping pairs.
From https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired
Facilitates making a column of increasing or decreasing numbers, dates, or daynames.