README.md

vim-config

Why, oh why?

Because vim rocks, but you have to heavily configure it to make it a decent text editor.

Heartlessly stealed and recomposed from:

• http://statico.github.io/vim.html
• http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
• http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/

What to do

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install vim exuberant-ctags silversearcher-ag

# to use yapf (Python Formatter)
sudo pip install yapf

# clone project and link to vim
git clone https://github.com/synapticvoid/vim-config.git $HOME/.vim
ln -s $HOME/.vim/.vimrc $HOME/.vimrc

Shortcuts

General

• key is remapped to ,
• / is also mapped to jj (to keep the hand positionned on the hjkl keys)

Plugins

• <Leader> + t = Ctrl-P searching all filenames under current directory (recursive)
• ; = Ctrl-P in current buffers
• <Leader> + e = Toggle NERDTree (directory tree)
• F8 = Toggle Tagbar (side bar with classes / functions structure)
• <Leader> + y = Format python file using yapf

Navigation

• <Ctrl> + n = Next buffer
• <Ctrl> + p = Previous buffer

Edit

• <Leader> + l = Toggle line number display
• <Leader> + r = Toggle relative line number display
• <Leader> + o = Toggle paste mode