About

I put all my vim config files at Dot Vim, it includes many kinds of plugins, colorschemes and templates(via powerful xptemplate). These vim extensions make vim a very powerful enviroment for coding, editing, file management and many more.

Quick Start

1. Clone it

   $ git clone http://github.com/linsong/dot_vim.git ~/.vim
   

   NOTE: you'd better backup your local .vim folder first.

2. Install and Configure Vundle

   Please refers to Vundle page for details, that's pretty simple.

3. Link vimrc files to your home

   $ cd ~
   $ ln -s ~/.vim/_vimrc .vimrc 
   $ ln -s ~/.vim/_gvimrc .gvimrc
   

   NOTE: you'd better backup your local .vimrc and .gvimrc files first. For Windows user, .vimrc should be _vimrc, .gvimrc should be _gvimrc

4. Install vim plugins

   There is a file named VundleFile under .vim folder, it already includes many powerful plugins. You can add more or disable some. After you feel comfortable with it, save it, relaunch vim and run vim command ':BundleInstall'. Now you can have a break and later you will a powerful enviroment for hacking!

Happy Vimming!

Recommandation

If you are a big fan of vim and want the same power when you operate your browser, just like me ;) , you should try Pentadactyl.

To let you start easily, I have put my Pentadactyl config files at dot_pentadactyl, enjoy!

A bit History

I used to add all my vim configs and plugins into one git repo at vim_config, it works well but it have several disadvantages:

• it is very big(~20M)
• it is very easy to be out of date since I need to update all these plugins manually
• it is not modular designed, so difficult to remove a plugin or temporary disable some plugins to speed up vim startup time. this is the most frustrating drawback, even later I started to use Pathogen, it is still not perfect.

These problems are all solved by Vundle in a nice way. Now to keep all plugins up to date just need running one vim command. And you can even disable some plugins in VundleFile by commentting them out to get vim start faster, and then later when you really need a disabled plugin, just run :BundleInstall PLUGIN_NAME, then it will ready, no need to restart vim. And trying some new vim plugin is super easy, just BundleInstall it.

For more details, suggest you have a look on Vundle.

Thanks Vundle!