Recently I forked a project on Github.com, and renamed it to vim4Lin which is a vim configuration. The project can be used to help to synchronize the configuration files of vim on multiple machines. However, I intentionally want to focus its experiences on Linux, such as Ubuntu. The project you can find in this following url: https://github.com/bfeng/vim4Lin

Overview

This is another vim configuration, which I normally use under terminal. So default theme is changed to molokai, which is optimized for C under terminals.

Vim related settings are in plugin/settings/Settings.vim, and other plugins’ settings are in plugin/settings corresponding directories.

Two vimrc files:

1. vimrc, standard version vimrc.

2. gvimrc, same as vimrc, but added some features only available in GUI mode.

you can link your ~/.vimrc to any one of them as you wish :)

It’s a screenshot of the up-to-date configuration:

The content above is from http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/5/

Installation and Update

1. BACKUP your .vim directory and .vimrc first.(IMPORTANT!)

2. cd ~ to change directory to your home directory.

3. Clone files to your home directory:

    git clone https://github.com/bfeng/vim4Lin.git
   

4. cd to vim4Lin directory and execute the update.sh to get latest version modules:

    cd vim4Lin
    ./update.sh
   

5. make a symbolic link .vim to vim4Lin that you just cloned, or just rename it to .vim also be fine:

    ln -s vim4Lin .vim
   

6. link the vimrc to

    ln -s .vim/vimrc .vimrc
   

7. if you use GUI version VIM, such as MacVim or GVim, you can also link to .gvimrc:

    ln -s .vim/gvimrc .gvimrc
   

8. change directory to ~/.vim and execute ./update.sh script, it should do all the updates automatically.

Features and Key Mappings

1. Resize splited windows automatically, so that you get a bigger editing room if you’re working with a smaller screen. (stole from Gary Bernhardt)

2. Toggle between working mode and presentation mode by \``z, but only work in GUI version Vim. You can check here to see how it looks like. (stolen from Mike Skalnik)

3. some usually used key mappings in normal mode:

   1. <F1> to toggle a Calendar window on and off.

   2. <F2> to toggle NERDTree on and off.

   3. <F4> to toggle Taglist window.

   4. <F5> is the script runner, according to it’s filetype, it will run Ruby(.rb) ,Python(.py) or Javascript(.js) file(SpiderMonkey is needed), even CoffeeScript(.coffee, but you may have to install CoffeeScript first). If the filetype is VimScript, <F5> will run :source % for you.

   5. <F7> to switch to previous tab, and <F8> to the next tab.

   6. hit <ctrl>p will launch a quick window to match keywords from your current working directory, not only file name, but also path name. And <ctrl>w u will match from your MRU(Mostly Recent Used) files, which is also frequently used.

   7. hit \ twice to toggle comment on and off.

   8. <tab> and <shift><tab> to increase and decrease the syntax indentation. By default, <tab> will invoke the code-completion prompt. If you need to input a real <tab> into text, hit <ctrl>v and <tab>.

   9. \``v to open .vimrc in a new tab.

   10. \``0 to edit or create README.md in current working directory.

4. Remove tailing whitespace automatically while saving.

5. Exuberant Ctags is recommended for the executable of ctags.

Reference

This work was forked from Eddie Kao’s eddie-vim. Thanks! Some modules, such as which support flex and css colors, are moved out, and add some modules which support latex are added in. The molokai theme is now supported as the main coding theme and vim-airline replaces the obsolte vim-powerline. Much work were done to focus on the compatibility between the GUI mode and the console mode.