John Anderson ( sontek ) - Turning Vim into a modern Python IDE

$ git clone $ cd dotfiles $ ./install.sh vim Download PDF Version Back in 2008, I wrote the article Python with a modular IDE (Vim). Years later, I have people e-mailing me and commenting daily asking for more information, even though most of the information in it is outdated. Here is the modern way to work with Python and Vim to achieve the perfect environment. Because one of the most important parts about a development environment is the ability to easily reproduce across machines, we are going to store our vim configuration in git: $ mkdir ~/.vim/ $ mkdir ~/.vim/{autoload,bundle} $ cd ~/.vim/ $ git init The purpose of the autoload directory is to automatically load the vim plugin Pathogen, which we'll then use to load all other plugins that are located in the bundle directory. You'll need to add the following to your ~/.vimrc so that pathogen will be loaded properly. filetype off call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() call pathogen#helptags()

Solarized - Ethan Schoonover Precision colors for machines and people Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions. See the changelog for what’s new in the most recent release. Currently available in formats for (cf screenshots below): Editors & IDEs Vim by me. Terminal Emulators Xresources / XdefaultsiTerm2OS X Terminal.appPutty courtesy Brant Bobby and on GitHub Other Applications Palettes Adobe Photoshop Palette (inc. Don’t see the application you want to use it in? Download Click here to download latest version Current release is v1.0.0beta2. Fresh Code on GitHub Features Installation

productivity - What is your most productive shortcut with Vim Ultimate Vim Config Steve Francia's Epic Blog I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the Ultimate Vim Config. It is well organized and documented taking full advantage of Tpope’s pathogen for a excellent clean and modular configuration. The Ultimate vim config contains the perfect .vimrc file combined with an excellent set of plugins all easily managed thanks to pathogen and git. It is on GitHub so you can always grab the latest. The Ultimate VIM Configuration This is the ultimate vim configuration. Modular configuration using power of pathogen & git Far more than just a well crafted .vimrc file (though it’s got one of those too), it makes use of pathogen to have a well organized vim directory. Fully cross platform It also works well on Windows, Linux and OSX without even modifying directories. The perfect .vimrc file The vimrc file is perfectly suited programming and also works well for general use. It fixes many of the inconveniences of vanilla vim including: Includes the best Plugins