Vim – Minimal Setup Explained
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Vim – Minimal Setup Explained
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Re: Vim – Minimal Setup Explained
#2While the information in there is good, a bunch of the settings are now redundant¹. The ones that jumped out to me were esckeys, ruler and showcmd.
Not that I'm saying you can't — or shouldn't — re-set options, just that the linked documentation is a little dated. FWIW, I personally re-set a couple of default options mostly so that I have a point of reference for how an option works when I'm digging about in my config.
I'm of the opinion that the combination of recent vim and Tim Pope's sensible.vim² is The Minimal Setup™.
¹ The site says the last update was 2014, and back then $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim wasn't a thing for example(7.4.2111).
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#3RIP Sven Guckes. I remember finding this page very helpful. Thank you.
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#4One of the things that annoys me about default vim (nvim more exactly) behavior is that it shifts the cursor left when exiting Insert mode. I use this to disable it:
au InsertLeave * :normal `^
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#5For me, minimal setup means installing on a fresh machine.
At this point, my vimrc automatically installs plugins if they're not installed.. otherwise it's one command. So it's just copy/paste and maybe one run command, and then vim environment is exactly the same on the new machine (it auto downloads).
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#6Question for Vim users: how do you get used to hitting Esc very often? I know some switch Cap with Esc but still clunky.
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#7Question for Vim users: how do you get used to hitting Esc very often? I know some switch Cap with Esc but still clunky.
I've just got used to over time. It's gotten to the point I accidently use vi keybindings in other applications. Luckily there's keybindings in common applications e.g. typing / followed by a search phrase works in Firefox as it does in Vi which is pretty cool.
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#8Question for Vim users: how do you get used to hitting Esc very often? I know some switch Cap with Esc but still clunky.
I've bound it to double J in my vim configuration file. First thing I do on every computer.
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#9Question for Vim users: how do you get used to hitting Esc very often? I know some switch Cap with Esc but still clunky.
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#10Question for Vim users: how do you get used to hitting Esc very often? I know some switch Cap with Esc but still clunky.
how is using cap clunky? works great