Vim Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:57 UTC

Tricks

• Reload .vimrc without restarting
  vim:

 :so ~/.vimrc
 :so $MYVIMRC
 :so %

: The last command is for when you’re editing it.

Package management

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Color Schemes

Installation

As an example, I’ll install the Base16
Eighties theme.

mkdir ~/.vim/colors
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chriskempson/base16-vim/master/colors/base16-eighties.vim > ~/.vim/colors/base16-eighties.vim

Fire up vim, then :colorscheme base16-eighties (tab-completion works!)
and voila. Add your favorite to ~/.vimrc

Finding Themes

• Vivify is a nice GUI.
  Villustrator is another.
• Base16: themes and
  preview. You can also make
  your own.

vim-airline

To get all the nice arrows and symbols in vim-airline, you’ll either
have to

• Patch your terminal
  font, or
• Download a pre-patched
  one¹

If you just want the symbols, see
this. This guy
has some great
observations
on the amount of effort necessary to get a simple status bar. You can
always use Sublime
Text.

I stopped caring:

   let g:airline_left_sep = ''
   let g:airline_right_sep = ''
   let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''
   let g:airline_symbols.branch = ''
   let g:airline_symbols.paste = ''
   let g:airline_symbols.whitespace = ''

Themes

Here’s a list
of included themes. Find one and set it in .vimrc with

   let g:airline_theme = 'base16'

Customization

 let g:airline_section_a       (mode, paste, iminsert)
 let g:airline_section_b       (hunks, branch)
 let g:airline_section_c       (bufferline or filename)
 let g:airline_section_gutter  (readonly, csv)
 let g:airline_section_x       (tagbar, filetype, virtualenv)
 let g:airline_section_y       (fileencoding, fileformat)
 let g:airline_section_z       (percentage, line number, column number)
 let g:airline_section_warning (syntastic, whitespace)

References etc

• Look for Unicode symbols
• Add this to ~/.vimrc to see the airline bar
  https://github.com/bling/vim-airline/wiki/FAQ#vim-airline-doesnt-appear-until-i-create-a-new-split
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 set laststatus=2

Footnotes