Quick shout-out to Nathaniel Ringo who goes to the U of M and helped me get on my feet with Vim!
Important: You must use Vim8 for all the features to work seamlessly. On macOS this is as easy as brew install vim.
To get started with my Vim profile, you should probably remove your current Vim profile by running:
rm ~/.vim/vimrc
Next, open Vim and run :PlugInstall
Voila! You're ready to go
- You will need to install or patch your own [NerdFont] (https://www.github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts) for the dev-icons to show up properly.
I found this hard to do on my mac so here are some detailed instructions if you wish to do it yourself:- Download a patched font of your choice from the above link and set it to your terminal font/vim font (straightforward) OR
brew install fontforgeand download the font-patch.py and perform the following command:./fontforge <path to font-patch.py> <path to font>- Install the patched font again and set it as your terminal or vim font
- I use the plug-in manager [Vim-Plug] (https://www.github.com/junegunn/vim-plug)