Designer Inspired Vim Settings

My designer-inspired Vim config. It includes:

• LESS, Stylus, Nunjucks and Handlebars syntax highlighting
• Nerd-tree with a familiar CTRL-K, CTRL-B trigger for Sublime users!
• CTRL-P to fuzzy find files a-la CMD-T in Sublime
• A not horrific colorscheme that is similar enough to the Sublime Monokai theme
• Pathogen for easy Vim plugin additions
• A simple .bash_profile that highlights the current branch of a git repo
• Turns on spellcheck and wordwrap (YES, WORDWRAP, DEAL WITH IT) on MarkDown files
• Easy buffer switching with Shift-h and Shift-l
• Close all buffers but current with \-x
• Fast write buffer with \-w
• Autocomplete for your CSS
• jj mapped to ESC when INSERT mode to save your finger from having to reach all the way to the ESC key
• Airline task bar which shows your current branch, your mode, filetype and more

Installation instructions

1. Clone this repo into a folder of your choosing, say ~/vim-settings
2. Upon successful clone, run git submodule update --init to initialize all the plugins loaded as submodules
3. Delete or backup or whatever your existing .vim folder and .vimrc file if exists
4. Symlink .vim and .vimrc in your user root directory like this: ln -s ~/vim-settings/.vim ~/.vim and ln -s ~/vim-settings/.vimrc ~/.vimrc respectively. Please note that this depends on what folder you cloned the repo to.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the .bash_profile file if you so wish to use that one.
6. Airline is included which adds a handy info bar to Vim. It uses some fancy fonts to work well - get them here. My preference here is Monaco. Set your Terminal program to use that font for Airline to render properly.
7. Want git branch auto-completion? Grab the bash script here and save it as .git-completion.bash in your user root folder (~/) and the included .bash_profile will pick it up.

Adding Plugins

With Pathogen its easy to add Vim plugins. Just go to the .vim/bundle folder and run git submodule add <git-repo-address> and voila.

Notes on Vim for Designers

Why do this? Because you get mad respect from devs and you drive other designers mad. Good enough for me!

Help with Vim

Nothing helps more than a good cheat-sheet.

Nods to @CSilivestru and @brentlintner for the help.