vim-setup

This is my vim setup.

Here's how to get started:

1. If setting up a new environment:
   • Setup Oh My Zsh to make the shell look nice. I tend to like the ZSH_THEME="bira" setting.
   • Install powerline-fonts using the instructions linked in that repo. Note that, if using iTerm2, need to set both the Regular font and the Non-ASCII Font in "iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Text" to use a patched font (Meslo LG M Bold for Powerline), per this issue.
   • It's nice to use the z command. Follow the steup instructions from that repo.
2. Clone this repo.
3. Create a symlink in the home directory to the vimrc in this repo using ln -s /full/path/to/vimrc ~/.vimrc, and similarly for latexmkrc.
4. Set up neovim: brew install neovim and pip3 install neovim-remote, then add the following lines to your .zshrc file: export NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/tmp/nvimserver and alias vim="nvim -u ~/.vimrc --listen $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS"
5. Install needed packages for fzf: brew install the_silver_searcher fzf
6. Install Vundle using git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
7. Open vim, and install all packages using: :VundleInstall
8. Install Skim pdf viewer.
9. Set up Skim for backwards search for LaTeX: go to Preferences > Sync, then under PDF-TeX support, choose Preset: custom, command: nvr, and arguments --servername /tmp/nvimserver --remote-silent %file -c %line

The following plugins will be installed by running :VundleInstall:

• Vundle
  • a vim plugin manager
• vim-airline
  • Nice-looking status/tab line
• vim-airline-themes
  • Themes for vim-airline
• vim-fugitive
  • Git plugin for vim
  • Allows vim-airline to display git branch info
• vim-colors-solarized
  • For a nice vim color scheme
• vimtex
  • Easily compile/load pdf/clean directory for Latex
  • Note: To compile multi-file project, specify main file using an indicator file <name of main file WITHOUT .tex>.latexmain
  • This config also depends on Skim PDF viewer. Follow instructions in the above list to make the viewer work nicely with this setup
  • I use neovim for my vim editor. To make sure that backwards search works with Skim, make sure to open nvim listening to a server: nvim -u ~/.vimrc --listen /tmp/nvimserver
• auto-pairs
  • Auto-close parens and such
• supertab
  • Light-weight tab completion
• NERDCommenter
  • Easily comment lines
• NERDTree
  • Display the file tree
• fzf.vim
  • Quickly search for files (by typing <Leader>f, i.e. \f) and text (by typing <Leader>a, i.e. \a)
  • Note that this relies on both fzf and the_silver_searcher being installed through homebrew, as mentioned above.