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dotfiles-vim

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

Clone this repo to a directory and run the create-links.sh script. CAUTION: this will remove any existing .vimrc and .vim directories and replace them with soft links to the files in this repository.

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

Changelog

• 2025-04-14: Removed textwidth and added a word-wrap toggle (<leader>w). Removed old and unused templates for markdown and readinglist. Added keybinding (<leader>m) for marks list and (crtl><shift>i) for datestamp.
• 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 :)