Panya's vim Distribution

Now on Pathogen.

Installation

curl https://raw.github.com/Panya/dotvim/master/bootstrap.sh -o - | sh

Updating to the latest version

To update to the latest version of the distribution, just run git pull --rebase; git submodule update; git submodule foreach git pull origin master inside your ~/.vim directory.

Intro to VIM

Here's some tips if you've never used VIM before:

Tutorials

• Type vimtutor into a shell to go through a brief interactive tutorial inside VIM.
• Read the slides at VIM: Walking Without Crutches.

Modes

• VIM has two modes:
  • insert mode- stuff you type is added to the buffer
  • normal mode- keys you hit are interpretted as commands
• To enter insert mode, hit i
• To exit insert mode, hit <ESC>

Useful commands

• Use :q to exit vim
• ,W to remove trail whitespaces
• gcc to comment/uncomment
• ,t to CtrlP (like TextMate Command-T)
• Keyboard cheat sheet.

Installed plugins

• CtrlP
• hybrid color scheme
• fugitive
• git
• TComment
• surround
• repeat
• supertab
• ZoomWin
• SnipMate
• delimitMate
• gist
• zencoding
• xml
• argtextobj
• Wildfire

Syntax files

• javascript
• YATE
• stylus
• CSS3
• HTML5
• coffeescript
• HAML
• markdown