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Vim is a powerful text editor. It is highly extensible via plugin architecture, has powerful search/replace and other text processing features, and it can easily integrate with many other tools (e.g. mail clients or wiki/todo lists/event scheduling/calendar/etc). The default Vim configuration is quite limited, intentionally, so that anybody can extend it for their own purpose.

My setup makes many improvements:

• Better syntax highlighting. Nice colours generally. It shows red when a file has unsaved changes
• Easy ability to view multiple buffers/files at once, easy to switch between buffers (F2/F3 for next/previous, and F12 closes a buffer)
• You can visually see what mode you’re in. F5 yanks/copies the buffer contents (also to X11 clipboard)
• If you’re editing files in a git repository, Vim will show you what branch you’re on
• Ctrl+ {H,J,K,L} or Ctrl+ {Left,Down,Right,Up} works, for easier split navigation
• …and more!

Here are some screenshots (click for full size):

Download my vimrc file - save it as ~/.vimrc and follow these instructions:

Ubuntu/Debian based distros

sudo apt-get install vim-gtk git

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install ctags

mkdir -p ~/.vim/{backups,bundle,tags,undo}

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

cd ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/

git reset --hard 50cd52f2ad34096dac77b0fc673031c0d367d357

cd -

sudo apt-get install ctags

vim +PluginInstall +qall

NOTE: Vim might complain on startup. Just edit .vimrc and remove some stuff as required if that happens.

If vim complains about luna-term, do this:

Download the luna distribution (as zip archive, see github)

Move colours/luna.vim to .vim/colors directory in your home directory.

Move colours/luna-term.vim to your .vim/colors directory aswell.

Version used for above:

https://github.com/notpratheek/vim-luna/blob/master/colors/luna-term.vim

NOTE: tested on Debian, Ubuntu and Trisquel

wget https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf

wget https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf

mkdir -p ~/.fonts/ && mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.fonts/

fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts

mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/ && mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

You’re all done!

Hopefully, you should now be editing text with great efficiency. Now refer to guides online and tutorials on video websites (such as YouTube) to learn Vim.

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