Add a bunch of useful extra options to .vimrc
A section about using spaces over tabs, and a test to make Vim and Tmux play nice with each other.
- Author
- Vngngdn
- Date
- Dec. 26, 2016, 8:13 p.m.
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- 8fc8d1f52b67f496b0db4ac5fa047a8e8ea47cef
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- 42ff76021878fdc5e9dd2730620f4f45ef7aae37
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- .vimrc
.vimrc ¶
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" Some details on the contents: |
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" This file is my personal Vim configuration file. It contains my plugins, is |
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" divided to subject, and fattened with lovely comments. |
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" Please be advised that some (obvious) settings are left out, because I |
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" actually only use NeoVim. Again, this is my PERSONAL file, not a 'general |
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" public Vi(m) compatible' file. |
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" VUNDLE {{{ |
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" Vundle is used to manage plugins for Vim. It needs additional setup, so it |
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" gets priority in my .vimrc. |
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filetype off " required |
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" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize |
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set rtp+=~/.config/nvim/bundle/Vundle.vim |
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call vundle#begin() |
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" let Vundle manage Vundle, required |
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Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim' |
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" YCM is a plugin that allows Vim semantic type checking and more programming mumbo jumbo. It is godlike and it must always be there for me. |
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Plugin 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe' |
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" Neomake replaces Syntastic from now on. It's an asynchronous linter, so yeah, |
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" pretty cool and must-have. |
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Plugin 'neomake/neomake' |
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" Airline provides a neat and feature rich status bar. Really nice to have. |
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Plugin 'bling/vim-airline' |
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" Bufferline will show buffers in the status bar. There's enough room anyway, so I fancied having it. |
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Plugin 'bling/vim-bufferline' |
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" A fuzzy searcher. Just CTRL+P and BAM all your files are visible. |
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Plugin 'kien/ctrlp.vim' |
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" This is a plugin for Git interaction. It places added and removed line icons |
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" in the 'gutter' (the bar next to the line numbering). It's better than |
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" Fugitive, because not only does it provide something you don't have with it |
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" (visible change lines), Fugitive offers functionality I rarely use (Git |
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" commands from Vim, which I ALWAYS do in the standard TUI), and it has |
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" provisions for NeoVim's asynchronous abilities. |
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Plugin 'airblade/vim-gitgutter' |
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" This provides snippets for redundant code. Praise the hackers man. |
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Plugin 'SirVer/ultisnips' |
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" In addition to UltiSnips, this plugin contains a prefetched repository of snippets. Must have, because I'm not planning on writing all of those by myself. |
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Plugin 'honza/vim-snippets' |
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" Rust syntax files, including Syntastic integration: |
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" To be removed when these are added to (Neo)Vim 'upstream'. |
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Plugin 'rust-lang/rust.vim' |
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" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line |
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call vundle#end() " required |
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filetype plugin indent on " required |
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" }}} |
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" YOUCOMPLETEME {{{ |
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" YouCompleteMe is a godlike completer for Vim. As such, it is worthy of its own section. |
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" However, I'll be trying out Deoplete in the future, which might render it |
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" obsolete. Until further notice, I'm keeping this beauty. |
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" This setting will force YCM to close the preview buffer after selecting the completion. |
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let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion=1 |
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" Sets the symbol used to indicate a syntax error: |
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let g:ycm_error_symbol = '>>' |
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" Sets the symbol used to indicate a warning: |
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let g:ycm_warning_symbol = 'i' |
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" Fills the identifier completion database with the language's keywords (e.g., when starting a new Java file, "class" will already be in the completion engine. |
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let g:ycm_seed_identifiers_with_syntax = 1 |
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" This setting tells YCM what keys to use to accept completion. I removed <Down> as default, because I'm a silly coder and still use my arrow keys to navigate my source files. Hey, years of negligence for Vim leaves its marks. To think I ever thought Notepad++ was the best editor ever, the fuck... |
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let g:ycm_key_list_select_completion=['<TAB>'] |
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" Same reason; I'm a dumb fuck and arrows are still hardwired in my brain. |
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let g:ycm_key_list_previous_completion=['<S-TAB>'] |
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" Configures the pointer to the ycm_extra_conf.py file. |
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let g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf = '~/.ycm_extra_conf.py' |
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let g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf = 0 " Disables security confirmation before loading the conf.py file. |
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" Configuration necessary for sematic Rust completion |
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let g:ycm_rust_src_path = '/usr/src/rust/src' |
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" }}} |
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" NEOMAKE {{{ |
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" This setting lets Neomake run on every file write: |
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autocmd! BufWritePost * Neomake |
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" }}} |
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" GITGUTTER {{{ |
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" Disables all keymappings of GitGutter. I don't use them anyway. |
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let g:gitgutter_map_keys = 0 |
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" Sets the 'refresh time' of when to update. Standard is 4 seconds. |
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set updatetime=250 |
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" Asynchronous updating is default, so no setting is needed. Check the FAQ if |
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" necessary for more information. |
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" }}} |
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" AIRLINE {{{ |
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" Airline is a great status bar plugin. Although it can behave quirky if Powerline is not on the scene. These scripts are dedicated to handle that behavior. |
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" These lines will load the powerline font for use in Airline. |
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if !exists('g:airline_symbols') |
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let g:airline_symbols={} |
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endif |
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let g:airline_symbols.space="\ua0" |
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let g:airline_powerline_fonts=1 |
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" If there is only one tab opened, the tab bar will display the different buffers. |
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let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled=1 |
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let g:bufferline_echo = 0 " Disables automatic echoing to the bufferline. |
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" }}} |
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" ULTISNIPS {{{ |
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" As mentioned earlier, this provides snippets to stop redundant code. |
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" To begin, changing default TAB, because YCM already uses TAB. |
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let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<c-l>" |
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let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<c-j>" |
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let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<c-k>" |
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" }}} |
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" COLOURS & COLORS {{{ |
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colorscheme molokai " I like molokai. I've used badwolf, but I like popping colors. |
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" }}} |
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" SPACES & TABS {{{ |
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" The number of visual spaces per TAB hit. |
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" inconsistencies in source code can be reduced by a landslide if everyone uses |
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" spaces. Spaces look the same on EVERY editor, IDE, printed sheet, ... Spaces |
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" enjoy *universal consistency across every computer*. TABs are objectively less |
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" useful than spaces. |
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" The number of visual spaces per TAB hit. |
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set tabstop=4 |
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" Setting the amount of tabs to 4. The default is 8. |
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set softtabstop=4 |
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" Makes TABs spaces when TAB is hit. |
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set expandtab |
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" Setting the amount of tabs to 4. The default is 8. |
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set shiftwidth=4 |
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" This breaks lines after column 80. |
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set textwidth=80 |
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" }}} |
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" UI CONFIGURATION {{{ |
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" The next 2 settings enable relative line numbering, but retain the absolute |
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" line numbering for the line currently selected by the cursor. |
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set number |
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set relativenumber |
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set cursorline " Highlights the line currently selected by the cursor. |
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filetype indent on " Detects filetype on load, and loads the appropriate syntax file. |
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set showmatch " Highlights matching parenthesis on hover ("[, {, ..."). |
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" scrolloff tells Vim how much lines above/below the cursor should always be |
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" visible. For example, if set to 5, there will always be 5 lines below and |
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" above the cursor, except when reaching the EOF. |
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set scrolloff=5 |
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" Next setting disables outputting the current mode to the last line. I did so, |
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" because I use Airline, which already prints the current mode. |
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set noshowmode |
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" }}} |
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" Shows a graphical menu when Vim suggests autocompletions in Ex mode |
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set wildmenu |
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" }}} |
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" SEARCHING {{{ |
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" Problem with hlsearch is that it does not turn off the highlighting. So searching for vowels may quickly result in everything being highlighted. This is a mapping. It will remove highlighting when entering \<SPACE> |
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nnoremap <leader><space> :nohlsearch<CR> |
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" FOLDING {{{ |
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" In case I forget (I'm Belgian), folding is hiding code parts that belong together, like functions. Très important. Fuck azerty. |
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" This enables folding as is. |
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set foldenable |
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" This setting determines how many folds have to be opened. The number indicates the folding level. So 0 = every possible folding is folded. 99 = practically everything is open. I'm using 10, since I already have a problem with more than 3 nested loops. |
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set foldlevelstart=10 |
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" This setting blocks overuse of nested foldings. I don't know how this will turn out in LISP/Scheme, but I'll be damned if this setting does more harm than good. |
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set foldnestmax=10 |
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" This setting is commented by default, but included in case I start to grow hate for the current way Vim handles folding (za). It basically maps that command to spacebar. I may map it to z because then I only have to type one letter and RETURN, that's 33% of my time saved! =3 |
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"nnoremap <space> za |
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" MOVEMENT {{{ |
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" Up and down moving in Vim using j/k defaults to "physical line movement", i.e. |
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" if a line is too long, it's wrapped to the next line ("virtual lines"), but |
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" the line counter still regards it as 1 line. |
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" The next setting makes it so that, if j/k is pressed once, it moves over |
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" virtual lines, but when repeated (say "5dd"), it moves over physical lines. |
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" Basically, the perfect tradeoff solution when using relative line numbering. |
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noremap <silent> <expr> j (v:count == 0 ? 'gj' : 'j') |
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noremap <silent> <expr> k (v:count == 0 ? 'gk' : 'k') |
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" Next 4 lines disable arrow keys. |
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noremap <Up> <nop> |
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noremap <Down> <nop> |
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noremap <Left> <nop> |
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noremap <Right> <nop> |
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" }}} |
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" BACKING UP {{{ |
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" What these lines do, is move the backup files to the /tmp folder. This will keep my directories clean and neat. |
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set backup |
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set backupdir=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp |
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set backupskip=/tmp/*,/private/tmp/* |
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set directory=~/.vim-tmp,~/.tmp,~/tmp,/var/tmp,/tmp |
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set writebackup |
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" }}} |
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" NEOVIM {{{ |
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" While it certainly is an improvement over 'vanilla' Vim, it does some things |
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" that keep me from using Vim as it's supposed to be; limited to no mouse usage. |
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" So I disable it. I'll enable it again when I've twisted my mind far enough to |
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" not touch my mouse again. (Not to mention some terminals don't support mouse |
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" control, so it's a bad habit nonetheless if you spend all your time on |
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" GNU/Linux distros) |
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set mouse="" |
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" MACROS {{{ |
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" Function that allows to quickly switch between relative and absolute numbering using |
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" CTRL+N(umber). |
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function! NumberToggle() |
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if(&relativenumber == 1) |
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set norelativenumber " Necessary to disable the previous behavior. |
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set number |
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else |
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set number " Retains absolute number on the current line. |
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set relativenumber |
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endif |
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endfunc |
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nnoremap <C-n> :call NumberToggle()<cr> |
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" }}} |
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" OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF {{{ |
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" Tmux is an awesome terminal multiplexer. However, with Vim, it may act tricky |
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" with cursor look. Next setting changes the block cursor to a vertical bar |
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" cursor, which I prefer. |
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if exists('$TMUX') |
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let &t_SI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7\<Esc>\\" |
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let &t_EI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7\<Esc>\\" |
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else |
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let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7" |
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let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7" |
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endif |
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" }}} |
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" OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF {{{ |
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" I found this gem on Reddit. If I'm editing a file that's read only, and I started Vim without sudo, then this little line will do just that for me. All I have to do is use "w!!" when saving. |
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" Extensive explanation can also be found at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600783/how-does-the-vim-write-with-sudo-trick-work#7078429 |
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cmap w!! w !sudo tee > /dev/null % |
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" This setting will allow me to switch to another buffer without need to save the current buffer. |
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set hidden |
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" }}} |
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" I use NeoVim, but I may encounter a vanilla Vim user once in a while. Next |
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" setting disables Vi compatibility (which NeoVim does by default). |
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set nocompatible |
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" Same reasoning. Enables syntax processing in Vim. |
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syntax enable |
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" Because Vim can fold vimrc files with the right syntax, These lines will tell Vim how to handle that. |
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set modelines=2 "This tells Vim that the last 2 lines of this file should only apply to this file. |
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" So as you can see, the last 2 lines get a special vim:-prefix, so Vim knows for sure this is what's important. |
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" To wrap a new section, look at the other sections, and copy that syntax. |
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" vim:foldmethod=marker |
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" vim:foldlevel=0 |
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