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Description

Just enough vim customizations to enable IDE style or even better productive workflow in vim.

Spirit of this vim distribution

  • Weave together vim plugins to create a portable and cohesive distribution where all plugins play well together.
  • Provide the most useful IDE/VIM style text editing features for a faster/productive workflow.
  • Be as minimalist/precise as possible keeping vim fast.
  • Have the most convienient key-mappings for the most used features.
  • Easy installation with minimum hassle. ( *nix agnostic )
  • Minimum external dependencies and handled well if any.

Ensure you have the these installed

  • bash
  • python
  • ruby

Installation

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yugaljindle/dotvim/master/install.sh)"

Feature Highlights:

Productive Workflow with :

  1. Sublime style ctrl-p project-wide fuzzy file search with ctrlp
  2. IDE style file tree with NERDTree and NERDTree Tabs to explore files in the project
    • Press ,. to toggle NERDTree explorer across tabs.
    • Open files in new tabs with Ctrl-t ( To match with ctrlp behavior )
  3. Sublime style multiple cursors for editing multiple lines at once with multiple-cursors
  4. IDE style GIT diff as signify
    • Jump to next diff with cm
    • Jump to prev diff with mc
  5. Fast file navigation with easymotion
    • ;w anchor to words
    • ;j anchor to lines forward
    • ;k anchor to lines backward
    • ;f search for character forward
    • ;F search for character backward
  6. Automatically closes parenthesis, braces, brackets, quotes as you type with delimitMate
  7. Tab completion of words inside of a search '/' with SearchComplete
  8. Easily toggle comments with tcomment
    • Alt-/ to comment/uncomment lines ( Gvim only )
    • gc to comment/uncomment lines ( Both vim & Gvim )
  9. Automatically switch working directory to VCS root with rooter
  10. Better markdown support with markdown
  11. Visible indents with indentLine
  12. More expressive tabs bar with taboo
  13. Toggle Maximize/Restore your vim split windows without loosing original splits with maximizer
    • F11 to toggle maximize/restore the current vim split
  14. Dashboard with recently used files, sessions & bookmarks with startify
  15. Manage GIT with fugitive
  16. Customized status line with airline
  17. Add/change surrounding brackets/tags with surround
  18. Vim autocompletion handled with using supertab
  19. Highlight matching xml/html tags with MatchTagAlways
  20. Search selected text with * or ? with vim-visual-star-search

Time Saving keyboard mappings

  1. Save with shift+w (W) and Quit with shift-q (Q). Additionally, save with ctrl-s as well when using Gvim.
  2. Press alt-i or alt-I insert/visual/select mode to change to Normal mode
  3. Press ,/ to exit search highlight after a search with /
  4. Press space or ctrl-space in normal/visual and start searching forward/backwards respectively.
  5. Press shift-h ( H ) to jump to line beginning and shift-l ( L ) to jump to line ending.
  6. Press F2 in insert mode to toggle paste
  7. Easy tab navigation with :
    • th -> First tab
    • tj -> Next tab
    • tk -> Previous tab
    • tl -> Last tab
    • tt -> New tab
    • td -> Close current tab
    • t1 -> Move to tab 1
    • t2 -> Move to tab 2
    • t3 -> Move to tab 3
    • t4 -> Move to tab 4
    • t5 -> Move to tab 5
    • t6 -> Move to tab 6
    • t7 -> Move to tab 7
    • t8 -> Move to tab 8
    • t9 -> Move to tab 9
  8. Easy split navigation in command mode with :
    • Ctrl-h -> Move left
    • Ctrl-j -> Move down
    • Ctrl-k -> Move up
    • Ctrl-l -> Move right
  9. Move split windows around (horizontal/vertical) :
    • ,h -> Move split left
    • ,j -> Move split down
    • ,k -> Move split up
    • ,l -> Move split right
  10. Move cursor with-in insert mode without arrow-keys: (normal mode)
    • Ctrl-h -> Move cursor left
    • Ctrl-j -> Move cursor down
    • Ctrl-k -> Move cursor up
    • Ctrl-l -> Move cursor right
    • Tab -> Move to next window
    • Shift-Tab -> Move to previous window
  11. Move current/selected lines vertically (Gvim Only) :
    • Alt-j -> Move line/selection down
    • Alt-k -> Move line/selection up
  12. Indent & Un-Indent with tab & shift-tab respectively (visual mode)
  13. Press :w!! to save with sudo ( Useful for system files )
  14. Press Enter in normal mode to save the file.
  15. Copy/Cut selected text with ctrl-c/x respectively and paste with ctrl-v in insert mode. ( Separate clipboards for copy/cut with ctrl-c/x & y/d )
  16. Open/Close folds:
    • - to close existing fold/selected fold
    • = to open fold
    • _ to close all folds
    • + to open all folds
  17. Revert current buffer to last saved state with !
  18. Cycle through buffers in present window with ,<space> and delete current buffer with ,<backspace>
  19. Regular visual selection with shift-up, shift-down, shift-left, shift-right
  20. Add quotes(' or "), brackets( [ or ( or { ) to selected text by pressing ', ", (, [, { after selection.
  21. Selection shortcuts:
    • Select the current line with `
    • Select to the end of line except the newline character with v`
  22. Press ,t move current split to new tab

Misc.

  • Syntax highlighting for nginx configuration ( missing in the standard vim install )

Author

twitter/yugaljindle
Yugal Jindle
linkedin.com/in/yugaljindle Profile

License

Copyright (c) Yugal Jindle. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license.