VIM CONFIGURATION

(By Cameron Swords, with select contributions from Andy Keep and Jaime Guerrero)

This vimrc is a set of vim bindings for developing code. It started when I was using Petite Chez Scheme and Racket. More recently, I've turned to Pathogen and expanded it a bit more.

Installation

First, you'll need to install pathogen.

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl  -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

Next, pull this file down and move it to be your .vimrc:

curl -Sso ~/.vimrc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cgswords/vimrc/master/rc.vim

After that you'll need to grab the color schemes, plus some other plugins for syntactic niceties.

git clone git@github.com:cgswords/vim-autoclose.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-autoclose
git clone git@github.com:cgswords/vim-colors.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-colors
git clone git@github.com:godlygeek/csapprox.git ~/.vim/bundle/csapprox
git clone git@github.com:godlygeek/tabular.git ~/.vim/bundle/tabular
git clone git@github.com:plasticboy/vim-markdown.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-markdown
git clone git@github.com:scrooloose/syntastic.git ~/.vim/bundle/syntastic
git clone git@github.com:wlangstroth/vim-racket.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-racket

In order of command, we have:

• A customization of Townk's AutoClose that doesn't duplicate \`` or '` (because Racket uses these characters for non-strings).
• A small collection of the color schemes mentioned in the .vimrc
• CSApprox, which enables full color in terminal vim
• Tabular, a great auto-alignment library
• Vim Markdown, syntax highlighting for Markdown files in Vim
• Syntastic, which reports all sorts of useful syntax errors (though you may want to disable the TeX one)
• Vim Racket, syntax highlighting for Racket in Vim

There are some other things to note here:

• I've rebound Ctrl+e to Ctrl+j and Ctrl+y to Ctrl+k; I find that using control with the standard keys to move up and down pages feels natural.
• I have rebound S to %. For the purpose of programming, I find that % (which serves as w/d/l might, but for a set of paretheses) is far more valuable than S (which deletes a line and drops into insert mode) as a keystroke right under my hands.
• I prefer tabstop of 2 with no expandtab, though there is a small exception to this for Makefiles, which is included in the .vimrc
• The vim_syntax_patch is from Kent Dybvig, who decided that the standard way that Vim indents things was wrong (which is true). It also modifies how mark yanking works just a tad. I don't use this patch, but it has some serious merit and I would if I were less lazy. The readme is extensive and the C code is straight-forward (ha!).