#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS HOW TO#
#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS INSTALL#
#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS CODE#
#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS WINDOWS#

#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS INSTALL#

Install and configure VIM plugins on Ubuntu 20.04 While set mouse=r allows us to interact with the mouse in desktop environments. For example, set paste allows us to use the clipboard to paste items. What these variables do is add some settings to VIM. However, it is advisable to make some configurations to get VIM working properly.Д«y default, the global configuration file is /etc/vimrc but the local user configuration file is ~/.vimrc which is the one we will use. To install it on Ubuntu 20.04, just open a terminal from the main menu or by pressing the keys CTRL + ALT + T and run the following sudo apt updateДЄfter this, you can run it from the terminal and create/edit text files. Support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats.Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. It is included as вЂњviвЂќ with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.

#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS HOW TO#

What is Vim and how to install it on Ubuntu 20.04?

Today in this post, you will learn how to install and configure VIM plugins on Ubuntu 20.04. One of these improvements is the possibility to add plugins to the editor. But in open source, some want to contribute and as a result, VIM was born as an independent program that adds improvements to Vi. Although it was not very easy to use, it was the most stable there was. I have known vim for a while but this time i actually really want to explore more about using vim, sometimes i use vim only for when i am connecting to a remote server via SSH, as the server usually doesn't have a user interface.Vi is one of the mythical text editors of Unix. Set spellfile=C:/Users/your_username/vimfiles/cache/en.utf-8.add Set backupdir=C:/Users/your_username/vimfiles/cache/ Set dir=C:/Users/your_username/vimfiles/cache/ Set undodir=C:/Users/your_username/vimfiles/cache/

CTRL + w w, to hop between tree navigation and the editorДЄlso some useful vimrc configuration: ' some vim customs configuration.

To open file in a tab mode, use capital T key instead of just enter.

HereвЂ™s some useful keys when you are using nerdtree:

And you can use enter to open the enter a folder or to open the file. With it you can navigate between files in your vim terminal like a file explorer, you can use the arrow key like up and down yo navigate each file you want to operate. NERDTree is a vim plugin to add file explorer interface to our vim. We only need to test if our nerdtree plugin is being installed or not, simply by opening your vim, type: vim Those are downloading nerdtree source code, without commit history, so itвЂ™s smaller in size.ДЄctually thatвЂ™s the only required process of how you install a vim plugin on Windows, there's no extra things, except if you want to do configuration, but we're not going to do that right now.

#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS CODE#

Now clone the source code of the vim plugin that we want to install, in this example, i am going to install nerdtree: cd vimfiles/pack/vendor/start Note that the HOME is your home directory, on windows, Home directory usually something like C:/Users/your_username. If the path doesnвЂ™t exist, you can manually create it. Move to HOME/vimfiles/pack/vendor/start directory using cd command.

#INSTALLING VIM PLUGINS WINDOWS#

Now to install a plugin, letвЂ™s start by opening our windows command prompt or there is a new cool windows terminal (if you donвЂ™t know about windows terminal, this is a really cool terminal, you can read in my previous article here).

Actually itвЂ™s very simple, but because vim users mostly are linux users, it kind of difficult to find a reference of Vim for Windows. So if you are someone like me, struggling to install vim plugin, you can follow this step by step guide. As a beginner vim user, even just installing a plugin is already something that confusing, i donвЂ™t know why the first time i try to install vim plugin just doesnвЂ™t work, even though i believe i have followed the instruction correctly.

Installing vim plugins