This is my vim configuration of vim for windows, unix and mac. The unix-style does also work on macintosh (at least on Max OS X 10.3).

I am a lot working on different operating system and different environments. Thanks to Bram Moolenar, I have at least my favourite editor on every system. Because I am also sometimes working on the terminal, I customized the vimrc, that it is working on Mac, Linux and Windows, at least on the most common versions of it. I try to support Cygwin as well. Because I always stumbled arround, getting my vim personalized, I decided to have at least the plugins and all the configuration files packaged.

My first customized vimrc is from a version something below 6.2. Since then it is evolving permanently and I am collecting some usefull scripts and plugins. Some are using external programs, maybe not available on all systems, but at least working on windows and debian, e.g. xmllint to format XML. I try to keep the plugins up to date.

Basically, this configuration provides two modi operandi. One tailored to normal screens, and one tailored to small screens. The first one uses bufexplorer to switch between open buffers and winfileexplorer to navigate. Open this modus with . The other one uses minibufexplorer and command-t (,t) to open files, which I start to prefer over the first one, because its a bit faster.

I am using since April 2013 pathogen and git submodules for installation of plugins and will try to migrate all existing plugins in my installation to this new structure.

The easiest way to install is to fork this repo and clone it. Then initialize the submodules and make some extra steps for some plugins. Please read the installation instructions for the plugins.

The structure of this project is very simple. On Windows just clone to your home directory in the directory named vimfiles. On all other systems this directory is called .vim. Then copy the files gvimrc_base and vimrc_base to your home directory.

On Windows:

> copy gvimrc ..\_gvimrc
> copy vimrc ..\_vimrc

On Mac and Unix:

$ cp gvimrc ../.gvimrc
$ cp vimrc ../.vimrc

Depending on which system you are, the files and plugins are sourced.

If you are using the vim version with gui gvim the file gvimrc_base is loaded. The file vimrc_base will always be loaded.

If you are using omnicompletion for vim you need also python installed with jedi (see https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim):

$ pip install jedi

To use the tagbar plugin you need to install the exuberant ctags library.

To use the plugins installed as git submodules you have to initialize them:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Following Plugins am I delivering:

• Markdown Syntax highlight for Markdown text files
• snipMate 0.8.3 TextMate-style snippets support
• css3 : css3 syntax for vim 2.1 CSS syntax highlighting with support for CSS3
• Better CSS Syntax for Vim : Make CSS more readable Syntax highlights for full CSS2, most of HTML5 & CSS3 properties (include prefix like -moz-).
• moria 2.6.4 A color scheme for GUI supposed to be highly readable
• haml 1.0 Haml and Sass syntax, indenting, and ftplugin
• [ccf 0.1] This plugin by me formats, converts and compiles with external programs
• javacomplete 0.77.1.2 Omni Completion for JAVA
• Asciidoc The asciidoc syntax highlighting and ftdetect-plugins
• VOoM : Vim two-pane outliner 4.7 VOoM (Vim Outliner of Markers) is a plugin for Vim that emulates a two-pane text outliner.
• html5.vim : HTML5 omnicomplete funtion and syntax for Vim 0.27 HTML5 omnicomplete funtion and syntax for Vim. Based on the default htmlcomplete.vim.
• vim-stylus : Syntax/Indentation for Stylus 0.8.3 Syntax hightlighting for Stylus
• asciidoc-syntax Syntax highlighting for Asciidoc (Changed dark colors to light colors)
• utl 3.0a Univeral Text Linking - Execute URLs, footnotes, open emails, organize ideas
• pathogen 2.3 manage your runtimepath
• fugitive git wrapper
• ConqueTerm 2.2 Run interactive commands inside a Vim buffer
• CSV 0.29 A Filetype plugin for csv files.
• jedi-vim Using the python jedi autocompletion library for VIM.
• indent/python An alternative indentation script for python
• vim-jade Jade syntax highlighting
• CtrlP Fast, intuitive mechanism for opening files
• Minibufexplorer Elegant buffer explorer - takes very little screen space
• JSLint VIM plugin and command line tool for running JSLint
• Syntastic A syntax checking plugin for Vim that runs files through external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors to the user.
• Javascript JavaScript bundle for vim, this bundle provides syntax and indent plugins.
• Tagbar Vim plugin that displays tags in a window, ordered by class etc.
• Nerdtree A tree explorer plugin for vim.
• Wikilink Follow wiki links with Enter and Go Back with Shift+Enter
• Colorizer A Vim plugin to colorize all text in the form #rrggbb or #rgb.

Changes made to the plugins

• Added some syntax definitions to markdown to support github flavored markdown syntax.
• Improved utl a bit (see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Script:293).
• Modified winfileexplorer.vim line 685 to call xdg-open instead of start on unix-systems.

Call them with :call or the commands.

• InitBackupDir() Creates the folders backup and tmp in $HOME/.vim resp. $HOME\vimfiles if they don't exist.
• RedSpace() Highlights unneccessary spaces and tabs.
• NoRedSpace() Unhighlights unneccessary spaces and tabs.
• InitSyntax() Copies the css syntax files to the right place depending on your operating system on the first startup.
• FileTime() Outputs the Modified date of the current file
• CurTime() Outputs the current time

• CompileSASS() or :SASS Compiles scss to css in the same folder. This function depends on the ruby gem sass.
• CompileLESS() or :LESS Compiles less to css in the same folder. This function depends on lessc.
• FormatXML() or :FormatXML Formats XML and sets the encoding to UTF-8. This function depends on xmllint.
• SetJavaClasspath() To get better code completion you have to set your java classpath. If you got an maven project, this script searches upwards for your pom.xml. If you want to reset the java classpath call it with the argument 1 :call SetJavaClasspath(1). This function sets your classpath depending on your pom.xml. It creates a classpath file .occp (OmniCompletionClassPath) for faster running the next time next to your pom.xml. To rerun this function on next start of vim, just hit . Alternatively you can create your own .occp-File manually.

• :Voom templatelanguage e.g. Voom rest or Voom asciidoc Opens the hierarchy view on the right side.

• Ctrl-n Enables the Nerdtree
• Ctrl-Space Completion in java code (Hold the ctrl-key down to choose from completion)
• Reset the classpath from your .occp file next to your pom.xml or generate the .occp.
• Shift-S Pressing "S" in the the FileManager opens the current file in the correct app.
• gu Opens the url under the cursor (see utl.vim)
• ,l Search for the dictionary entry at http://dict.leo.org
• ,t Search for files using CtrlP

Often I forget some shortcuts. I write them all down in doc/my.txt and open this file with :h my.

• Set the color scheme by default to moria dark.
• reformated the statusline
• reformated the ruler
• set the columns, lines and guifont depending on the operating system
• start on windows by default in fullscreen mode
• mapped the suffix .less to filetype css
• add mapping for arrow keys
• disable the menu (set guiOptions-=m)
• disable the toolbar (set guiOptions-=T)
• enable by default syntax highlighting (syntax on)
• enable indentation by default (filetype indent on)
• enable linebreak by default (set linebreak)
• enable line numbering by default (set nu)
• enable auto indent by default (set ai)
• enable the statusline always (set ls=2)
• set shift width to 2 (set shiftwidth=2)
• set tab size to 2 (set ts=2)
• set foldmethod to syntax (set foldmethod=syntax)

Currently I am using version 7.4 of vim. All plugins were updated on 18/02/2013.

Last updates to this document:

• 15/04/2015: Updated plugins
  • html5.vim
  • nerdtree
  • syntastic
  • tagbar
  • vim-airline
  • vim-fugitive
  • vim-json
  • vim-markdown
  • vim-polyglot
• 15/04/2015: Deleted taglist plugin and using tagbar only
• 11/09/2014: Added colorizer plugin
• 02/09/2014: Removed jshint in favor of syntastic
• 19/06/2014: Updated plugins
  • html5.vim
  • jshint.vim
  • tagbar
  • vim-airline
  • vim-fugitive
  • vim-javascript
  • vim-markdown
• 19/06/2014: Updated Pathogen to 2.3
• 19/06/2014: Installed wikilink plugin https://github.com/mmai/wikilink
• 14/04/2014: Added solarized color scheme
• 05/03/2014: Updated html5.vim, jshint, tagbar, airline, vim-markdown
• 05/03/2014: Installed nerdtree, airline; removed winmanager and bufexplorer
• 05/11/2013: Updated CSV with version 0.29
• 05/11/2013: Updated Better CSS Syntax with pathogen
• 04/11/2013: Substituted CommandT with CtrlP, because the ruby extension made problems on Maverick
• 04/11/2013: Updated bundles html5, css3
• 02/05/2013: Updated bundles command-T, tagbar, mini-bufexpl
• 02/05/2013: Replaced markdown vim plugin with https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown/
• 13/04/2013: Installed jshint, tagbar
• 12/04/2013: Installed command-t, minibufexplorer, jslint, vim-javascript
• 10/04/2013: Updated fugitive to the latest master version
• 20/03/2013: Remaped on windows and to and
• 19/03/2013: installed vim-jade (https://github.com/digitaltoad/vim-jade)
• 19/03/2013: configured as autocomplete command in html files
• 23/02/2013: installed indent for python (https://github.com/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent)
• 23/02/2013: installed taglist 4.5
• 22/02/2013: installed jedi-vim (current from master)
• 21/02/2013: Updated CSV plugin to version 0.28
• 21/02/2013: Unix-only: in fileexplorer works now in gnome (see changes)
• 18/02/2013: Unix-only: mapped :Bash to :ConqueTerm bash
• 18/02/2013: installed conqueterm 2.2
• 18/02/2013: installed fugitive.vim (see https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive)
• 18/02/2013: installed pathogen.vim (see https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen)
• 18/02/2013: improved utl script (see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Script:293)
• 18/02/2013: updated voom to version 4.7
• 18/02/2013: updated bufexplorer to version 7.3.5
• 18/02/2013: installed utl version 3.0a ALPHA
• 18/02/2013: updated winmanager to version 2.41
• 09/13/2012: html5, css3, stylus support
• 08/20/2012: asciidoc support added
• 08/20/2012: voom plugin added