kickstart.vim

Kickstart.vim is a Vimscript version of Kickstart.nvim. Like Kickstart.nvim, Kickstart.vim strives to be:

A starting point for ~~Neovim~~ Vim that is:

Small

Single-file ~~(with examples of moving to multi-file)~~

Documented

Modular

Note

I highly recommend you to fork this repo so that you can manage your own configuration

Option #1: Manually copying and pasting the contents of the .vimrc

Option #2: Creating a symbolic link

This is an easy way to manage your Vimrc with Git as well as other configuration files.

clone the repository in your home directory

git clone https://github.com/Gertm/kickstart.vim.git ~/src/kickstart.vim

Create a symbolic link between ~/src/kickstart.vim/.vimrc and ~/.vimrc
```
ln -sf ~/src/kickstart.vim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
```
Now whenever you open ~/.vimrc, you are opening ~/kickstart.vim/.vimrc. Since kickstart.vim is a Git repository, you can easily manage changes you made to your .vimrc across multiple devices.

Run the following command and launch Vim again, and you are ready to go!

vim +PlugInstall +qa

kickstart.vim:

is written in Vimscript (:surprised Pikachu face:) and designed for Vim >= 0.8
uses Vim alternative for the following plugins
- lazy.nvim -> vim-plug
- nvim-lspconfig and other LSP plugins -> vim-lsp
- nvim-cmp -> supertab
- which-key.nvim -> vim-which-key
- gitsigns.nvim -> vim-gitgutter
- onedark.nvim -> onedark.vim
- lualine.nvim -> vim-airline
- indent-blankline.nvim -> indentLine
- Comment.nvim -> vim-commentary
- telescope.nvim -> fzf & fzf.vim
enables some settings enabled by default in Neovim (e.g., filetype, syntax, autoindent, etc.) on the top of kickstart.nvim settings
enables hlsearch
disables undofile by default, but the instructions for changing undodir and enabling undofile are included
does not provide an alternative for:
- highlight on yank
- nvim-treesitter

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