ek9/vimrc

ek9/vimrc is a personal .vimrc configuration published as a vim plugin. It is inspired by tpope/vim-sensible.

Part of ek9/dotfiles collection.

Install

Install ek9/vimrc using vim-plug:

call plug#begin()
Plug 'ek9/vimrc'
call plug#end()

Note! It is advised to load ek9/vimrc at the end of your plugin list. You can also use Vundle or Pathogen to install the plugin.

Features

This vimrc plugin enables the following features and tweaks:

• Tweaks from tpope/vim-sensible:
  • Enable UTF-8
  • Use vi iMproved (nocompatible)
  • Always show statusline
  • Show type commands
  • Automatically refresh changed files (with confirmation)
  • Increase history to 1000
  • Enable live search
  • Enable autoindent (preserve indentation)
  • Enable smarttab (tabs as spaces)
  • Smart backspace handling
  • Syntax highlighting enabled
• Mouse and visual bell features disabled
• Enable fast tty redraw
• Window splitting defaults to below (instead of top) and right (instead of left)
• Unified backup, undo and vimfile directories (under /tmp/vim-$USER/)
• Swap files disabled
• Display tweaked to use 16 colors
• Enable auto-wrap at 80 column width (with visual vertical line enabled)
• Enable highlight of current cursorline
• Scrolloff set to 5 lines
• Enable title updating
• Enable line numbers
• Enabled smart case sensitivity in searching
• Use 4 spaces for tabs as default with 2 spaces for html,twig,pp,sls files.
• Enable expandtab
• Spelling language set to en.
• Word wrap tweaked to wrap only whole words and not cut them
• Search tweaks to highlight results, ignore casing, starts showing results as you search.
• Find and replace is global by default
• Disable default behaviour of paste writing overwritting content to clipboard

Hotkeys

Hotkeys and aliases added by this config:

• Disable arrow keys (to force use of h/j/k/l)
• Enable tab navitagion with Ctrl+h/j/k/l
• Enable split window navigation with Shift+h/j/k/l
• Ctrl+s split window vertically
• Ctrl+v split window horizontally
• </> adjust the size of split windows
• Disable F1 / Q help keys
• F1 toggle spellcheck
• F2 toggle paste mode
• F3 toggle line numbers
• F4 toggle gundo
• F5 toggle whitespace display
• Ctrl+L - line open/close
• :w!! - write file with sudo

Authors

Copyright (c) 2015-2016 ek9 dev@ek9.co (https://ek9.co). Copyright (c) Tim Pope for parts of code from tpope/vim-sensible project.