It is recommended that you use gVim in either Windows or Linux and MacVim for Mac. You need version 7.3.885 or newer because there are dependencies.
Download from:
Windows: http://files.kaoriya.net/goto/vim73w32 (32bit) http://files.kaoriya.net/goto/vim73w64 (64bit)
Ps. I needed to "flat-out" the structure of the downloaded zip above. There is a vim73 dir inside it that I needed to move the files to the install root.
Mac: In MacVim with homebrew:
brew install macvim --with-cscope --with-lua --override-system-vim
Troubleshoot: Because of the large amount of submodules, if you ever have any trouble after pulling from the repository, it will be easier to just back up your old .vim folder and just git clone a new version.
Clone this repo into your home directory either as .vim (linux/mac) or
vimfiles (Windows). Such as:
git clone git://github.com/carlosedp/vimfiles.git ~/.vim
Then cd into the repo and run this to get the submodules:
git submodule init
git submodule update
Now just copy (or symlink) the .vim/vimrc file as .vimrc (Mac/Linux)
or copy as _vimrc (Windows) in your home directory. In Mac and Linux, the
easiest thing to do is:
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
On windows, create an environment var VIM pointing to the install dir and put
the _vimrc file in this dir. Clone the vimfiles repo into the same place like:
c:/apps/vim/_vimrc
/vim73/...
/vimfiles/...
If you already have a custom .vimrc file, append the following lines to
load everything else along with your personal hacks:
source $VIM/vimfiles/vimrc "windows
To update all submodules, use the following command on vimfiles dir:
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
If you are using MacVim on MacOS Lion, disable the native fullscreen mode to allow "WriteRoom" mode:
defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMNativeFullScreen
Don't forget to install the font you plan to use from the Fonts dir. You can check the one that is enabled(uncommented) on the set guifont setting in the vimrc file.
You will need these dependencies figured out:
- Exuberant Ctags http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
In Ubuntu, for example, you will have to do:
apt-get install exuberant-ctags ncurses-term
In OS X, you can install ctags with homebrew
brew install ctags
On Windows you have to download Ctags and add ctags.exe in your PATH.
Mac OS X and most Linux distros come with Ruby already. If you're in Windows look for Luis Lavena's latest Ruby Installer on http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
- Ack
You can download Ack standalone from http://betterthangrep.com/ using their own instructions:
curl http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
On Windows, download the ack-standalone, and perl(git already ships with it) than, create a ack.cmd on Windows path with the following content: @"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\perl" C:\dev\ack-standalone.pl %* adjusting the paths for your needs.
- Pandoc
Pandoc is used to transform Markdown files into another document types. I use to generate RTF versions of Markdown text.
You can download Pandoc from http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ and install into your platform path.
F1 - Opens NERDTree in current buffer directory or Rails project root
F2 - Opens Buffer list
F3 - Previous Buffer
F4 - Next Buffer
F5 - Toggle between wrap and nowrap lines
F6 - Toggle between display special characters (line endings, tabs)
F11 - No-distraction mode writeroom mode (fullscreen)
Ctrl+W/Ctrl-X - Close current file
Shift+F4 - Close current file without saving
Ctrl+Q - Visual Mode (Replaces <C-V>)
<leader><tab> - Rotate thru windows
<leader><tab> - In insert mode, inserts a hard tab (\t)
<leader>R - Reindent file and strips trailing whitespaces
<leader>RR - Reindent file and strips trailing whitespaces on all buffers
<leader>W - Strip spaces from the end of lines (entire file)
<leader>WW - Strip spaces from the end of lines (entire file) on all buffers
<leader>mm - Remove windows to unix "^M" artifacts
<leader>m - Opens Most Recently Used file list
<leader>c<space>- Toggles block comment/uncomment
<leader>d - Duplicates current line
<leader>r - Search and replace in entire file (:%s//)
<leader>s - Split window vertically and switch to it
<leader>h - Split window horizontally and switch to it
<leader>e - Edits vimrc file
<leader>tl - Opens Taglist-plus tag browser
<leader>fn - Inserts current file name into text
<leader>fu - Converts filetype endings to unix
<leader>fd - Converts filetype endings to dos
<leader>fm - Converts filetype endings to mac
<leader>pr - Executes pandoc generating an RTF from current file
<leader>1-9 - Applies highlight to current word
<leader>0 - Removes highlight from current word
<leader>- - Removes all highlight
<leader>+ - Restores previous highlight
<leader>space - Clear search highlight
<leader>g - Opens Gundo plugin
<leader>a - On SelectMode allows surrounding selection with following char
Ctrl+n - Create new empty buffer
Ctrl+C - Copy
Ctrl+V - Paste
Ctrl+X - Cut
Ctrl+S - Save file
Ctrl+Z - Undo
Ctrl+Y - Redo
Ctrl+A - Select all
Ctrl+P - Opens CommandP fuzzy file finder
Ctrl+Tab - Cycle thru buffers
Tab - Autocomplete / Add snippet
Alt+w - Close window
, - Quick search current word under cursor
Ctrl+[hjkl] - Navigates thru split windows (left, down, up, right)
Ctrl+up - Move current line up(Also works with selection)
Ctrl+down - Move current line down(Also works with selection)
Shift+J - Joins selected lines without spaces
bb - Set line bookmark(Normal mode)
<leader>bb - Set line bookmark(Insert mode)
bp - Go to previous line bookmark
bn - Go to next line bookmark
za - Toggle folding
> - Indent selected text or selection
< - Dedent selected text or selection
_md - Set filetype as Markdown
_py - Set filetype as Python
_js - Set filetype as Javascript
call XMLPretty() - Set filetype to XML, break into lines and reindent file.
Visit the following sites to learn more about Vim:
There are many sites teaching Vim, if you know of any other that are easy to follow for newcomers, let me know.
- Original project and most of the heavy lifting: @scrooloose
- The cool plugins for Rails, Cucumber and more: @timpope
- All the other modules I use that can be seen on .gitmodules or bundle dir
- Hacks and some snippets: @carlosedp