VIM customization

Original info can be found on linode

Customize the Global vimrc File

Place the following data to /etc/vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc file

Note!
Prefixing the sudo command is necessary when editing files where read and/or write permissions are not granted to your user account

set showcmd› › " Show (partial) command in status line.
set showmatch› › " Show matching brackets.
set ignorecase›› " Do case insensitive matching
set smartcase› › " Do smart case matching
set incsearch› › " Incremental search
set autowrite› › " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make
set hidden›› " Hide buffers when they are abandoned
set mouse=a› › " Enable mouse usage (all modes)

Create ~/.vimrc file for current user

" Set compatibility to Vim only.
set nocompatible

" Helps force plug-ins to load correctly when it is turned back on below.
filetype off

" Turn on syntax highlighting.
syntax on

" For plug-ins to load correctly.
filetype plugin indent on

" Turn off modelines
set modelines=0

" Automatically wrap text that extends beyond the screen length.
set wrap
" Vim's auto indentation feature does not work properly with text copied from outside of Vim. Press the <F2> key to toggle paste mode on/off.
nnoremap <F2> :set invpaste paste?<CR>
imap <F2> <C-O>:set invpaste paste?<CR>
set pastetoggle=<F2>

" Uncomment below to set the max textwidth. Use a value corresponding to the width of your screen.
" set textwidth=79
set formatoptions=tcqrn1
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab
set noshiftround

" Display 5 lines above/below the cursor when scrolling with a mouse.
set scrolloff=5
" Fixes common backspace problems
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Speed up scrolling in Vim
set ttyfast

" Status bar
set laststatus=2

" Display options
set showmode
set showcmd

" Highlight matching pairs of brackets. Use the '%' character to jump between them.
set matchpairs+=<:>

" Display different types of white spaces.
set list
set listchars=tab:›\ ,trail:•,extends:#,nbsp:.

" Show line numbers
set number

" Set status line display
set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ [FORMAT=%{&ff}]\ [TYPE=%Y]\ [POS=%l,%v][%p%%]\ [BUFFER=%n]\ %{strftime('%c')}

" Encoding
set encoding=utf-8

" Highlight matching search patterns
set hlsearch
" Enable incremental search
set incsearch
" Include matching uppercase words with lowercase search term
set ignorecase
" Include only uppercase words with uppercase search term
set smartcase

" Store info from no more than 100 files at a time, 9999 lines of text, 100kb of data. Useful for copying large amounts of data between files.
set viminfo='100,<9999,s100

" Map the <Space> key to toggle a selected fold opened/closed.
nnoremap <silent> <Space> @=(foldlevel('.')?'za':"\<Space>")<CR>
vnoremap <Space> zf

" Automatically save and load folds
autocmd BufWinLeave *.* mkview
autocmd BufWinEnter *.* silent loadview"

Install the Vim-Plug Plug-In Manager

sudo curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Install Your First Plug-In With Vim-Plug

1. Create a separate file to manage your plug-ins, and a new directory to store them.

touch ~/.vimrc.plug
mkdir ~/vimplug-plugins

2. Open ~/.vimrc in the Vim editor and add the following text at the bottom to call the .vimrc.plug file.

 " Call the .vimrc.plug file
 if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc.plug"))
     source ~/.vimrc.plug
 endif

3. Now, open the ~/.vimrc.plug file in Vim. Populate the file with the contents below to add the Fugitive Vim plug-in, a Github wrapper. With this plug-in installed, you can now run a Git terminal from within Vim!

Note!
Any additional plug-ins to be installed need to be added between the “plug#begin” and “plug#end” lines.

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

"Fugitive Vim Github Wrapper
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'

call plug#end()

Note!
If after this step you receive an error similar to "E117 Unknown Function: plug#end" check the user permissions over ~/.vim/ you may need to chmod -R 0755

4. After saving and closing the .vimrc.plug file, exit and restart Vim. The final installation procedure is to issue the PlugInstall command in command mode. This will open the plug-in manager within Vim and proceed to install all plug-ins listed in the *vimrc.plug file. Installed plug-ins will automatically load the next time Vim is started.

:PlugInstall

5. Additional commands for managing plug-ins via Vim-Plug are listed below.

Command	Description
PlugInstall	Install plugins
PlugUpdate	Install or update plugins
PlugClean[!]	Delete removed plugins
PlugUpgrade	Upgrade Vim-Plug
PlugStatus	List plugins and current status
PlugDiff	Display changes made during updates
PlugSnapshot[1] [/output/path]	Generate script for restoring current plugins

Addition materials

Useful plugins on vimawesome.com

Generate your own config with vimconfig.com