hacking and gonzo since 2000

The ultimate Vim configuration (vimrc)

When searching for vimrc on Google you'll find my vimrc from 2006 in the top 10 results. Unfortunately this vimrc is outdated and it included a lot of garbage.

I am now releasing a new vimrc that I think is the ultimate and that you can use or get inspired by!

My new vimrc can be found here:

http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html - syntax highlighted
http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.txt - raw version

If you wish, you can also install my Vim configuration easily (along with some very useful plugins). To install it simply do following:

$ mkdir ~/.vim_runtime
$ svn co svn://orangoo.com/vim ~/.vim_runtime
$ cat ~/.vim_runtime/install.sh
$ sh ~/.vim_runtime/install.sh <system>
  <sytem> can be `mac`, `linux` or `windows`

My Vim configuration includes following plugins:

minibufexpl.vim - get an overview of open buffers
bufexplorer.vim - switch between buffers fast
yankring.vim - makes it easy to manage clipboard
snipMate.vim - snippets from TextMate
surround.vim - makes it speedy to surround text
fuzzyfinder - find files quickly (similar to TextMate's find feature)

Happy hacking ;-)

The colorscheme I use is called peaksea and looks like this:

Vim peaksea colorscheme

Announcements · Code · Tips · VIM Editor • 16. Jan

15 comments so far

Daniel Engel 19. Jan: Well done. Nicely put together :)

Jan Christoph Ebersbach 20. Jan: Yeah, finally a vim configuration with the awesome peaksea colorscheme. Thank you for publishing your useful vimrc. Your configuration reads very similar to the one I'm using. If you are interested -> http://github.com/jceb/vimrc.

amix 20. Jan

Jan:
I am interested and will check it out for inspiration :-)

Daniel:
Thanks ;-)

skazhy 21. Jan: Thanks, this will be very useful for my own vimrc :)

Jagna 22. Jan: Unfortunatelly cannot check out SVN repository :/ Could you fix it?

Pascal 22. Jan: Thanks for sharing. I'll check this out his weekend. Always great to have some inspiration from other vimrcs. (:

Kasim 27. Jan: I am not able to check it out. Can you look into this when you get a chance? Thank you for sharing.

John 28. Jan: Thanks for this. Very well formatted. I'm learning a lot just reading through it. I've copied some (maybe most :) of it to my own vimrc.
Btw, MySys() function is not working?

amix 28. Jan

John:
Define it like this:

fun! MySys()
return "mac"
endfun

You can return "mac", "linux", or "windows".

sakdanadak 29. Jan: Thank you for sharing.

zimzam 4. Feb: I seem to be having some funny problems with your vimrc on my Macbook (both with MacVim and the command line vim). When quitting files (whatever way) I have to do so multiple times before they actually close. It seems that the closing tab suddenly becomes a copy of one of the other open tabs. In addition, when closing multiple tabs I successively lose and recover the file menu bar on the right hand side as I do so. Is there a fix for this? Otherwise your vimrc is pretty spiffy.

Caleb 4. Feb

Was wondering if you have ever tried NERDTree for file exploration. Finding a file not already in the buffer isn't (as far as I can see) enhanced by any of your suggestions.

Still, nice options, I'm going to incorporate some of them. Thanks for sharing.

lioujian47 10. Feb: great! nice nice nice!

yeslijing 10. Feb: I can not checkout from svn://orangoo.com/vim
And I visit http://orangoo.com/vim, that give me "404 Not Found" response.
Some wrong in my network?

CBarnardo 13. Feb: I Love IT. Thank You.