Requirements

Vim 7.3 or better Tested on MacOS and Linux

Quick Install

curl https://raw.github.com/vonTronje/vimfiles/master/bootstrap.sh -o - | sh

INSTALLATION

Note: If you are using RVM make sure you use system ruby before installation.

rvm use system

Note: If you already have Vim installed ensure it has support for Ruby:

vim --version | grep ruby

You should see +ruby, if you see -ruby you need to reinstall Vim with Ruby support

Install Vim (if not already installed)

MacOS: MacVim / Vim

brew install macvim --override-system-vim --enable-clipboard

Add /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your $PATH so you use the version of vim installed by Homebrew, not the one that comes with MacOS.

By installing Vim in this way MacVim and regular Vim are exactly the same.

Ubuntu: gVim / Vim

Server

apt-get install vim-nox

Desktop

apt-get install vim-gnome

GNU/Linux from source

If you have an old GNU/Linux distro which does not have Vim 7.3 or better in its repos then install from source.

The configure options below leave out any GUI related features as I have only compiled Vim on a server.

Vim source is in a hg (Mercurial) repository so you need to install the hg client first, e.g. sudo apt-get install mercurial.

hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
cd vim/vim73
./configure
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-multibyte
make
sudo make install

This installs Vim to /usr/local/bin, check this is in your $PATH before /usr/bin which may contain an older system version of Vim.

If you get an error no terminal library found install libncurses5-dev.

Install these vimfiles

Note: You will already have a ~/.vim folder, either delete or move it.

mv ~/.vim ~/.vim.old
git clone https://github.com/vonTronje/vimfiles ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim
rake install

or run:

curl https://raw.github.com/vonTronje/vimfiles/master/bootstrap.sh -o - | sh

To update to the latest vimfiles

cd ~/.vim
./update_bundles.sh

Install Dependacies

MacOS

brew install ack
brew install ctags

Note: MacOS comes with the BSD version of ctags which is not compatible.

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags
sudo apt-get install ack-grep
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ack-grep /usr/local/bin/ack