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This is a nice effort. I'm probably in the tiny majority of people who have been using Vim for ~15 years but have never bothered with any customization or plugins (I'm also a philistine who uses the arrow keys for navigation).
I would argue you haven't actually used Vim then :)
Awesome tool. Seems super useful not only for new vim users. Being a vim-pro, but using it for very specific tasks only, it always annoys the crap out of me, setting vim up with reasonable defaults on a new machine/OS. One thing which I found missing from your nice selection of options is how vim handles the clipboard. Please let me choose (or include useful defaults if you have not done so already) how vim's interna…
- "autoload" and "bundles" from "vim" folder in the downloaded archive should go inside "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles"
- rename the _vimrc in in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim" as _vimrc.old
- copy the vimrc from the downloaded archive as _vimrc into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim"
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For OSX I have my vim files synced via Dropbox. But when you want to use vim on Windows or Linux you have to reconfigure quite a bit. I love fiddling around with editor settings as much as the next guy. But when you have a specific task at hand and just want to quickly use vim then realising its not already set up. Copying configs and googling around to make them work in the current environment can become a very unwa…
I'm an OSX user, but I just created a repository (on Github) and anytime I add new plugins/configurations I try to commit those changes...as I spent a good deal of time customizing my setup at one point. You could create one for Windows & one for Linux.