Alan's Dotfiles

Use my vimrc config file to get a head-start with Vim.

Installation

./install.sh

Key Features

• Code folding for bracket or indention based languages
• Edit multiple files in tabs using minibufexpl plugin
• Using the Solarized color scheme
• Using Vundle for plugin management (apt-get for Vim plugins)
• Common swp, backup, & view directories (No more ~ files left around)
• Useful defaults (spaces instead of tabs, remove trailing newlines, etc.)

Plugins Included

• Solarized Color Scheme - colorscheme for the vim text editor
• Airline - Lean & mean status/tabline for vim
• Mini Buffer Explorer - Elegant tab bar showing open files
• Fugitive - the best Git wrapper of all time
• gist-vim - post current buffer(s) as a gist
• Gundo - visualize your Vim undo tree
• LargeFile - edit large files quickly
• CamelCaseMotion - CamelCase motion through words
• NERDTree - file tree explorer plugin
• nerdtree-git-plugin - show git status for files in NERDTree
• WakaTime - automatic time tracking and metrics about your programming
• Expand-Region - visually select increasingly larger regions of text
• CtrlP - fuzzy file finder, alternative to :e or NERDTree. Open with CL f
• Surround - quoting/parenthesizing made simple
• Python-Mode - detect runtime errors in Python code

Screenshot

Font and Color Theme

Use a font patched for airline compatibility, like Anonymous Pro:

Full list of fonts

Install the solarized color palette in your terminal:

iTerm2:

• Open iTerm 2, open Preferences, click on the "Profiles" icon in the preferences toolbar, then select the "colors" tab.
• Click on the "load presets" and select "import...".
• Select the Solarized Dark theme file.

Guake:

git clone git://github.com/coolwanglu/guake-colors-solarized.git
./guake-colors-solarized/set_dark.sh solarized

Choose Solarized's light or dark theme in your vimrc file:

set background=dark

More info on the official Solarized page.