GitHub - devstein/vim
Setup
1. Install neovim
brew install neovim pip install pynvim npm install -g neovim
2. Alias vim and vi to nvim
# Add these lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc alias vi="nvim" alias vim="nvim"
3. Symlink ~/.vim/init.vim to ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.vim/init.vim
4. Start modifying your ~/.vimrc
A few of my preferred settings
" Remap leader key let mapleader = "\<Space>" " jj and jk to escape inoremap jj <esc> inoremap jk <esc> " Ctrl+C to yank to clipboard vnoremap <C-c> "*y " Always use spaces set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab " Color Scheme syntax on set termguicolors " Always use line numbers set number " Spellcheck set spell spelllang=en_us
5. Install Plugins via vim-plug
First install vim-plug
sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'
Then to start off, add the following to the top of your ~/.vimrc
call plug#begin('~/.local/share/nvim/plugged') Plug 'tpope/vim-sensible' Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive' Plug 'tpope/vim-surround' Plug 'tpope/vim-eunuch' Plug 'scrooloose/syntastic' Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' Plug 'sheerun/vim-polyglot' Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat' " File Finder " PlugInstall and PlugUpdate will clone fzf in ~/.fzf and run the install script Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': './install --all' } | Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim' Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' } Plug 'Xuyuanp/nerdtree-git-plugin', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' } "" Initialize plugin system call plug#end()
and run :PlugInstall