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

Vundle FTW.

 " Required Vundle stuff
 set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
 call vundle#begin()
 Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'
 
 " Plugins
 Plugin 'airblade/vim-gitgutter'
 Plugin 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
 Plugin 'chriskempson/base16-vim'
 Plugin 'bling/vim-airline'
 Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
 Plugin 'jmcantrell/vim-virtualenv'
 Plugin 'bling/vim-bufferline'
 
 " End Vundle stuff
 call vundle#end()
 filetype plugin indent on

Color Schemes

iTerm2, Base16 theme on OS X. Need do three things:

• Install relevant iTerm2
  theme
• Set up the Base16
  shell in ~/.profile
• Install Base16 vim
  themes (done
  via Vundle)

Then,

let base16colorspace=256
let g:airline_theme='base16'
colorscheme base16-railscasts

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 (see source)

   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
  1.

 set laststatus=2

• Vivify is a nice theme-making GUI.
  Villustrator is another.
• You can also make your
  own Base16 theme.
• Some good notes on a
  basic Vim setup.

Footnotes