gavin-op/vimrc

My vimrc configuration

vimrc configuration

This is how to install VIM and configure vimrc files.

Table of Contents

Install¹

• Install the latest version of VIM

  • For Windows, find VIM in vim release page.
  • For Linux, run the following command to update VIM.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install vim
    vim --version

• Install NodeJS in NodeJS download page.

• Install plugin manager vim-plug.

  • For Windows, open command line in directory the_folder_vim_is_installed\vim90\autoload, run the command below.

    curl -fLo plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

  • For Linux, run the command below to download the plug.vim into the directory ~/.vim/autoload.

    curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim  

• Clone the repo.

  • For Windows, install git in git download page, open command line in directory C:\User\[username]\. Run the command below.

    git clone https://github.com/Gavin-OP/vimrc.git

  • For Linux, don't clone the repo, just create a .vimrc file in ~, and copy the _vimrc_linux into the Linux .vimrc file.

Configuration

• Change the default path of _vimrc file.

  • For Windows, open command line in directory the_folder_vim_is_installed\, open _vimrc file using vim _vimrc, and add the following code.

    source $HOME/vimrc/_vimrc

  • For Linux, TBC

• Change the path for backup, swap, undo files.

  • For Windows
    • run the following command to create the folders.

      mkdir .vim
      cd .vim
      mkdir .swp
      mkdir .undo
      mkdir .backup

    • Make sure the path for directory, undodir, backupdir match the folder created above.
  • For Linux,
    • run the following command to create the folders.

      mkdir .vim
      cd .vim
      mkdir .swp
      mkdir .undo
      mkdir .backup

• Change the path for Python ddl file.

  • For Windows, TBC

• Install plug-in.²

  • Randomly open a file using vim, install all the plug-in using :PlugInstall.
  • Randomly open a file using vim, set up vim-copilot using :Copilot setup, check the status of vim-copilot using :Copilot status.

Other Useful Command

• git status
• git pull
• git add [filename]
• git commit -m "comment inside"
• git push

To Do

• auto pair configuration error for > and etc.
• enable vim python support
• auto format python configuration
• plug-in ctrl-p

Footnotes

1. Download curl in curl download page and put it in the computer path. (only for plug-in instant-markdown-preview) ↩

2. Install instant-markdown-d using [sudo] npm -g install instant-markdown-d. (If using instant-markdown plugin) ↩