VIM CONFIG

TABLE OF CONTENT

• ABOUT
• IMPORTS
• PLUGINS
• COLORSCHEME/THEME
• KEYBINDINGS
• MISCELLANEOUS

ABOUT

I use Vim for my daily work as a code editor as well as a text editor. It is a very good software, it already has a lot of functionality that everyone trying to get through extensions in code editor like VSCode, Atom, Sublime-Text,etc. enabled by default. You can also use it on any other OS that is available today.

Setting up Vim on Windows is little bit tricky but it works sometimes when you have your home/environment variable setup correctly, otherwise you need to do that manually.

This configuaration is mainly for linux user, or mac as well. I am using it on linux and it works just fine for me. There are also a lot you can do with Vim but I am happy with these config.

IMPORTS

These are basically the default setting that everyone uses while working in vim.

The basic functionality of any command is also indicated there in the form of comment in the source code.

syntax on                       "Enables syntax highlighting

set noerrorbells                "Disable the sound on error
set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4     "Insert 3 spaces for a tab
set shiftwidth=4                "Changes the number of spaces chanracters inserted for indentation
set smarttab                    "Makes tabbing smarter, it realize you have 2 vs 4
set expandtab                   "Converts tabs to spaces
set smartindent                 "Enables smart indent
set cmdheight=2                 "More space for displaying messages
set nu                          "Enables numberline
set relativenumber              "Enables relative number line
set nowrap                      "Disable the wrapping of long line test it will be now on single line
set smartcase                   "Only applies to search patterns that you type 
set mouse=a                     "Enables the mouse 
set splitbelow                  "Split horizontal window to below
set splitright                  "Split the vertical window to the right
set t_Co=256                    "Support 256 colors
set autoindent                  "Good auto indent
set noswapfile                  "Disable the creation of swap file for every file opened in vim
set nobackup                    "Disable the creation of backup file in vim
set undodir=~/.vim/undodir      "Save our undo action to a particular directory
set undofile                    "Creates a undo file 
set incsearch                   "Enables increamental search
set clipboard=unnamedplus       "Enables the clipboard support in vim now it shares the clipboard of the windows 
set cursorline                  "Highlight the current line 
set formatoptions-=cro          "Stop newline continuation of comments
set colorcolumn=100             "Set the vertical color column after 100 character length

highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=0 guibg=lightgrey

PLUGINS

I am using Vim-plug as my plugin manager in vim. Below are the list of some of the plugins that I personally use. These all are really a life-saver to me.

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'prettier/vim-prettier', { 'do': 'yarn install' }
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'
Plug 'jremmen/vim-ripgrep'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'leafgarland/typescript-vim'
Plug 'vim-utils/vim-man'
Plug 'lyuts/vim-rtags'
"Plug 'git@github.com:kien/ctrlp.vim.git'
"Plug 'git@github.com:Valloric/YouCompleteMe.git'
Plug 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe'
Plug 'kien/ctrlp.vim'
Plug 'mbbill/undotree'
Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs'

call plug#end()                 "End of vim-plug plugin listing

COLORSCHEME/THEME

Using background color as dark, and color scheme is set to gruvbox. I imported gruvbox in the plugin section.

colorscheme gruvbox             "Setting colorscheme to gruvbox
set background=dark             "Set background to dark

KEYBINDINGS

Listed below these are some of my fav keybindings that I use. My leader key is set to Space which is lot easier for me.

let mapleader = " "             "Leader key set to space bar
nnoremap <leader>h :wincmd h<CR>
nnoremap <leader>j :wincmd j<CR>
nnoremap <leader>k :wincmd k<CR>
nnoremap <leader>l :wincmd l<CR>
nnoremap <leader>u :UndotreeShow<CR>
nnoremap <leader>pv :wincmd v<bar> :Ex <bar> :vertical resize 30<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>ps :Rg<SPACE>
nnoremap <silent> <Leader>+ :vertical resize +5<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <Leader>- :vertical resize -5<CR>

"Use alt + jklh key to resize window

"nnoremap <M-j>  :resize -2<CR>
"nnoremap <M-k>  :resize +2<CR>
"nnoremap <M-h>  :vertical resize -2<CR>
"nnoremap <M-l>  :vertical resize +2<CR>

"Changing jk or kj to work or remap to work as escape key
inoremap jk <Esc>
inoremap kj <Esc>

"Easy caps c stands for CTRL
inoremap <c-u> <Esc>viwUi
inoremap <c-u> viwU<Esc>


nnoremap <silent> <Leader>gd :YcmCompleter GoTo<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <Leader>gf :YcmCompleter FixIt<CR>

MISCELLANEOUS

These are also some of the setting to be imported into the vimrc.

if executable('rg')
    let g:rg_derive_root='true'
endif
"Setting path to ycm config where it is located in my system.
let g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf = "~/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe/.ycm_extra_conf.py"

"These set some of the directories/files to be ingnored by the ctrlp 
let g:ctrlp_user_command = ['.git/', 'git --git-dir=%s/.git ls-files -oc --exclude standard']

let g:netrw_browse_split=2
let g:netrw_banner = 0
let g:netrw_winsize = 25

let g:ctrlp_use_caching = 0