Once added you can type :PlugInstall to install plugins. vimrc file, note the call plug surrounding the plugins. To add plugins to vim, add the below block into your. Check out the GitHub page on how to install on your system. There are many different plugin managers, including vim itself (as long as you are using version 8 and above) but I prefer using vim-plug. Guicursor keeps the cursor the same size even when going into insert mode Scrolloff gives you X number of lines at the bottom when scrolling down Incsearch will highlight text as you search within a file using / Noswapfile prevents swap files being created when opening an existing file in vim Nowrap prevents long lines of text from wrapping Re sets regex (I set this for performance reasons in a React project) Tabstop, softtabstop, shiftwidth all set the number of spaces to indent when inside a code blockĮxpandtab replaces tab characters with spaces Smartindent will indent the correct amount depending on your language and where other code indents are Relativenumber enables showing relative line numbers so you can jump around quickly (e.g. syntax on set nu set relativenumber set encoding=UTF-8 set smarttab set smartindent set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab set re=0 set nowrap set noswapfile set incsearch set scrolloff=8 set guicursor= There are tons more to check out if you type :help when inside vim.
There are a few defaults that I like to adjust in vim for some quality of life improvements. Inside this file you can configure the defaults, install plugins, and map keyboard shortcuts in each of the modes (normal, visual, visual block, insert).
vimrc and placing this in your HOME directory in Linux or Mac.
The standard way to customize your vim editor is using a file named. One of many improvements is having “infinite” undo so you could rollback many changes if you changed your mind. The primary developer and maintainer is Bram Moolenaar and you can checkout his latest progress on GitHub. If you aren’t familiar with vim, it is a text editor developed to extended the functionality of the vi editor (Vi Improved). Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash My Vim Config
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