Reading other posts telling me to install x, y, and z for my rig with no explanation, I’m always wondering: but why? I don’t assume what’s right for me is right for you, but I do keep things light and simple. As of October 2017, I’m using things in active development that are improvements on older tools from earlier this year and before.

Tools and plugins not only become deprecated, but also superseded by something better/faster/leaner. Sure, there are a ton of blog posts already about this, but I wanted to toss this setup in the ring for 3 reasons: So I’ve made the initial dive into Vim, and wanted to talk about it. 2017 Filament Group, Inc.Oh My Zsh + iTerm + Vim: a lean, mean, coding machineĭisclaimer: I have no idea what I’m doing. vim repository with a vimrc file that will contain most of your configuration:

I recommend versioning your configuration to share across machines while keeping track of any changes you made. However, it’s more evolutive and customisable, so the first thing to do is to start setting it up to fit your preferred way of coding. Out of the box, Vim is very hard on the eyes and doesn’t have a lot of feature we’ve come to expect from other editors like Sublime or Atom. Basic Setupįirst of all you need to install vim, or, if you don’t like to run your text editor in your console and use a mac, you can install MacVim. Obviously if you’re using an ergodox and only code in Flow-Matic we will have very different opinions on what is best. Overall I found the experience to be way more easy and fun than expected, so I decided to share! In this article I’ll explain how to quickly setup and customise Vim without having to use a pre-made distribution, just Git and a Terminal.ĭisclaimer: All the choices made here reflect my opinion, the way I use Vim and the tools and languages I generally use.

There always were a few plugins I wouldn’t use and some features I couldn’t get to work because I didn’t understand the internals of my distribution.īecause of this I decided to entirely drop the setup I’ve been working with for the past years and started from scratch, adding only what I needed.

Since then I made a a lot of changes to my config, but it never felt entirely like my own setup. I started using Vim a while ago with the great distribution Janus.

Mac vim config files