Installation

In your $HOME directory, run

git init
git remote add origin <clone url>
git fetch
git checkout -b master origin/master
git submodule update --init --recursive

the submodule(s) are necessary, else you will be missing .tmux.conf and tmux will not work.

Install vim

Install vim according to one of the OS-specific instruction sets below. Then see section "Install vim plugins"

macOS

For vi on macOS, I recommend doing the following:

brew install vim --with-override-system-vi

then restart your terminal. Running vi --version should show an updated vim. You can check that you have the latest available from Homebrew by referencing the version shown by brew info vim.

Ubuntu 20.04

Use a vim installation with python support. My preferred is

sudo apt install vim-athena

Ubuntu 16.04

Use a vim installation with python support. My preferred is

sudo apt-get install vim-gnome
sudo update-alternatives --config vim # Opens window where you can specify default vim
sudo update-alternatives --config vi  # Opens window where you can specify default vi as vim
sudo update-alternatives --config editor  # Opens window where you can specify vim as default editor

Ubuntu 14.04

For vi on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64, here are the steps I used to install:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
    libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \
    libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev python-dev \
    python3-dev ruby-dev lua5.1 lua5.1-dev libperl-dev git
sudo apt-get purge vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd ./vim
git checkout v8.0.0000
./configure --with-features=huge \
            --enable-multibyte \
            --enable-rubyinterp=yes \
            --enable-pythoninterp=yes \
            --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu \
            --enable-python3interp=yes \
            --with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.4/config-3.4m-x86_64-linux-gnu \
            --enable-perlinterp=yes \
            --enable-luainterp=yes \
            --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-cscope --prefix=/usr
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim80 -j2
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall

Update alternatives as appropriate:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/vim 1
sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/vim 1
sudo update-alternatives --set vi /usr/bin/vim

In the case you wish to uninstall vim, run

dpkg -r vim

Install Dependencies

• Install fzf.
• Install silver searcher. (Other find apps could be used instead, like ripgrep or fd)

Tips

Use .gitignore_global to specify files for git to ignore in EVERY repository. This should be a short list. For it to take effect, run

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global