Vim installation

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fcwu-tw/ppa
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install vim -y

OS X

brew install macvim

Dependencies

You will need these dependencies figured out:

• Ruby (for the fuzzy finder plugin)
• Exuberant Ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)

In Ubuntu, for example, you will have to do:

apt-get install exuberant-ctags

In OS X, you can install ctags with homebrew

brew install ctags-exuberant

On Windows you have to download Ctags and add ctags.exe in your PATH.

Mac OS X and most Linux distros come with Ruby already. If you’re in Windows
look for Luis Lavena’s latest Ruby Installer (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)

Vimfiles installation

git clone https://github.com/jshafton/vimfiles.git ~/.vim

Now you should create a new .vimrc file in your home directory that
loads the pre-configured one that comes bundled in this package. You can do it
on Linux/Mac like this:

echo "source ~/.vim/vimrc" > ~/.vimrc

On Windows you should create a _vimrc (underline instead of dot) and add
the following line inside:

source ~/vimfiles/vimrc

This way you can override the default configuration by adding your own inside
this file.

You should also create a new .gvimrc file in your home directory. You can do
it on Linux/Mac like this:

echo "source ~/.vim/gvimrc" > ~/.gvimrc

YouCompleteMe support

The YouCompleteMe plugin has a bunch of requirements to build it.

In Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev cmake -y

Bundle installation

In order to install all the required plugins, you’ll need to use Vundle. First, clone its repo into your bundle folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle.git bundle/vundle

Install the bundles with the following:

$ vim +BundleInstall

Compile YouCompleteMe

cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh