My VIM setup

A lot of trial, error, and research has gotten me to the point where I realize how amazing vim is. :-)

Perquisites: Vim requires Python support or Ultisnips gets angry. With Ubuntu try installing vim-gtk:

sudo apt install vim-gtk

Under OpenBSD try vim-nox

I jump between Linux, Unix, and macOS accounts and use this install out of the box.

Config

• Searches ignore case
• Autosave is turned on for todo, taskpaper, and Markdown files
• Tabs are expanded. Ruby is 2 spaces, Python and PHP is 4.
• Word processing mode turned on for .markdown, .md, and .rst files

Keys

The leader key is set to \.

• S - Highlight text and hit S, next character will surround the text. For left/right characters ({}/[]/()) use the left one to add a space and then the character or the right one to just add the character.
• c-j & c-k - Move lines or blocks of text up and down
• jk/kj - Escape out of edit mode
• dts<space> - Expands to %Y/%m/%d %H:%M -
• e<tab> - Ultisnip to insert current date/time (%Y/%m/%d %H:%M). The advantage of this is that the date is select so you can change it and use c-j to go to the hour and then minute to change them. I use it to backdate entries in my Journal.
• <space><space> - Derek Sivers tip on writing each line separately. Two spaces will put a . and a return. Markdown doesn't care about lines with a single return, it will put them all in a paragraph until it see two returns. Except for Wordpress, it sees each return as a new paragraph.
• \r - Save the current script and run it.
• c-g - Turns on distraction free writing with Goyo.
• c-n - Opens Nerdtree on the right

Look below for keys specific to certain tasks.

Taskpaper

Autocomplete tags - C-x C-n
Mark task done: \td
Archive task: \tD
Search for tags: \ts

Word Processing

Synonyms: C-x C-t
Add word to dictionary: zg
Lookup misspelled word: lz=

Show/Hide plug in

zs - Show all lines containing word under cursor 
zh - Hide all lines containing word under cursor 
zn - Open all folds

Installation:

If you already have a ~/.vim, you'll want to rename or move it.

git clone https://github.com/mrrcollins/vim.git ~/.vim

And for the bold after cloning:

cd ~/.vim
bash bootstrap.sh

The scripts sets everything up and clones the plugins. It won't overwrite anything that already exists.

If you use the bootstrap.sh you can ignore the rest. Well, except for the one liner to update the Vim plugins in ~/.vim.

Bundles

mkdir ~/.vim/bundle
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/tomtom/tlib_vim.git
git clone https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-mw-utils.git
git clone https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips.git
git clone https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets.git
git clone https://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet.git
git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git
git clone https://github.com/skrzyp/vim-mads
git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround.git
git clone https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil
git clone https://github.com/djoshea/vim-autoread.git
git clone https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git
git clone https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown.git
git clone https://github.com/freitass/todo.txt-vim.git
git clone https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste

There is probably a better way, but here is a one-liners stolen from hereto update all of the plugins in ~/.vim/bundle:

for i in ~/.vim/bundle/*; do git -C $i pull; done

Create symlinks:

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.vim/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Switch to the ~/.vim directory, and fetch submodules:

cd ~/.vim
git submodule init
git submodule update

Modified from here