.vimrc

This is my JS-focused VIM config which I am currently running on MacOS. It should work on Linux without any changes, and on Windows you should only need to modify the swap dir and plugin paths.

Dependencies

1. Vim (obviously)
2. Vim Plug
3. Powerline Fonts
4. Mystical Tutor Color Scheme
5. A decent terminal emulator with support for Powerline fonts and their symbols

You can install them all (on UNIX) like so:

# Powerline Fonts
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1
cd fonts 
sudo ./install.sh 
cd ..
rm -rf fonts
# Create directories
mkdir -p .vim/autoload .vim/plugged .vim/colors .vim/tmp
# Vim-Plug
curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
# Mystical Tutor
curl -fLo ~/.vim/colors/mysticaltutor.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caksoylar/vim-mysticaltutor/master/colors/mysticaltutor.vim

Install

1. Replace the default vimrc with this one. On UNIX it's pretty typically found in ~/.vimrc, or in %AppData% on Windows.
2. Go through the file and change any hotkeys or directory paths that you don't like
3. Open the file in vim and type :PlugInstall then restart vim.

Features

Just a short list of hotkeys and features offered by this config:

• F2 opens (or closes) a file tree and lets you browse the directory for other files to edit. New files open in tabs.
• Browse tabs with F3 (Previous Tab) and F4 (Next Tab)
• Open a git blame split pane with F5, and press o to open the commit diff responsible for that line.
• Fixes lots of common exit typos, such as :Wq or :wQ, effectively making it case-insensitive
• Better defaults, like visible line numbers, highlight matching braces, scroll offset so you can always see above or below the current cursor line, etc.
• Auto indent using 2 spaces with support for certain HTML tags
• Airline status bar with a wide variety of information about the file you're currently working on.
• Comfortable dark theme colors
• Dedicated directory for swap files
• Better split behavior (open right and down, move with ctrl+HJKL single chords)
• Set unix line endings by default
• Support UTF-8
• Syntax Highlighting and Linting with support for JSX
• CSS Color Highlighter
• Realtime Syntax Checking
• Auto Formatting
• Auto close HTML tags

etc.

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