Setup vim configuration

Get the .vim folder:

    git clone https://github.com/ssiccha/.vim.git ~/.vim

Install vim plugins

Among other things, vim-plug can easily manage vim-plugins that are available on github. It is already contained in this .vim-folder and does not need to be installed manually. For more information see junegunn/vim-plug.

Install the prerequisites to build the completion engine YCM:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake python-dev openjdk-11-jre mono npm go

For more information on YCM see Valloric/YouCompleteMe.

Now open / restart vim to load / reload the vimrc and enter :PlugInstall to let vim-plug install all plugins listed in the vimrc via Plug 'link-to-github-repo'. YouCompleteMe is automatically compiled after calling :PlugInstall. This may take some time. Now restart vim again.

How to use this config

vimrc contains

• a list of plugins managed by vim-plug.
• usability settings that should be useful for everybody
• plugin configurations
• at the end of the file, it contains inclusion statements of the vimrc_mappings and the vimrc_private

vimrc_mappings contains

• (leader) mappings that should be useful for everybody. <SPACE> is used as the leader key

vimrc_private contains

• my own mappings and settings that not everybody may want. Create a symbolic link link_to_vimrc_private to vimrc_private if you want to enable it.

This vim configuration is built around the awesome plugins Valloric/YouCompleteMe and SirVer/ultisnips. YCM is a completion engine whereas ultisnips enables you to write your own code snippets. To make full use of ultisnips you should have a look at the amazing, concise ultisnips tutorials (the first 10 minutes should suffice). You can find links to SirVer's screencasts on ultisnips' github repository or watch the screencasts directly on YouTube.

Troubleshooting

If you have problems to use / compile YouCompleteMe, make sure that you have Vim 7.3.598 or later with python2 support (use vim --version). Also, make sure that python2 is findable via your $PATH variable. If it's not, you can e.g. create a symbolic link via ln -s /usr/bin/python2.X /usr/bin/python2 to make it available, where 2.X is your python version.

If your colours seem to be off, your terminal may be using even less than 256 colors as standard setting. Setup bash accordingly by running this from a terminal:

    echo '#Set TERM:' >> ~/.bashrc
    echo 'export TERM="xterm-256color"' >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc

Install neovim

For information on how to install neovim see the NEOVIM.md.