README - dotfiles-vim

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• Updated : 2024-02-27 14:19

I want to finally have a .vimrc in which I understand each and every line. After years of collecting snips and scraps from other people's dotfiles, I want to make sure that I am aware of what my .vimrc is doing.

This configuration is based heavily on the guide I found here: Vim Zero which does exactly what I am aiming to do here: wipe the slate clean and start over.

Whenever possible, I've noted the URL from which I found the setting or snippet. I try to insist that not everything is self-explanatory.

Installation

Without the Ansible playbook, just clone this repo to a directory and create a few symlinks:

ln -s dotfiles-vim/.vimrc $HOME/.vimrc
ln -s dotfiles-vim/.vim $HOME/.vim

Then open vim and install (or update) the plugins with :PlugInstall (or :PlugUpdate)

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• 2024-02-13: Several changes:
  • Included more comments and links about what each entry does
  • Removed polyglot plugin
  • Removed ALE plugin
  • Removed tpope/vim-markdown plugin
  • Removed netrw customizations
  • Removed auto templates, changed them to snippets:
    • Insert markdown header with ,md
    • Insert shell header with ,sh
• 2024-02-22: Replaced Vimwiki with Vim Markdown
  • Suggestions from Writing Markdown in Vim
  • Added
    • godlygeek/tabular
    • preservim/vim-markdown
• 2024-02-25:
  • Added vim-spellsync plugin and made the needed changes to accommodate
  • Reworked markdown and shell script templates to update dates in headers automatically.
  • Started making better commit messages in order to avoid having to document details in README :)