Installation Instruction

Clone the Repo

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/artvandelay/dotfiles.git

Create Symbolic Link to the Dot Files

ln -s  ~/dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
ln -s ~/dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc

Restart your terminal and open Vim/ Gvim

gvim yourtestfile.cc

Documentation for the Vim Bundles

DelimitMate

This plug-in provides automatic closing of quotes, parenthesis, brackets, etc.

Nerd Commenter

Super awesome commenting tool.

Usage

• [Leaderkey ('\' by default) ]+cc => Comment
• [Leaderkey]+cu => un-Comment
• [Leaderkey]+cs => Sexy Comment
  

Nerd Tree

The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations.

Usage

• :NERDTreeToggle
• Ctl+n

Snip Mate

A snippet is a piece of often-typed text that you can insert into your document using a trigger word followed by a .

Usage

• Type 'for'+tab and you should see a templated for loop.

SuperTab

Supertab is a vim plugin which allows you to use for all your insert completion needs (:help ins-completion).

Usage

• Completion. Mind you it doesn't look through other files like omnicomplete

Syntastic

Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs files through external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors to the user

Usage

• If there is a syntax error you should see it complain along the left column

Tabularize

There are times when you can improve the readability of your code by lining up the elements on neighbouring lines.

Usage

• Short Vimeo Video Tutorial

Vim-Powerline

Awesome bottom line for vim with lots of useful information.

Tag Bar

Tagbar is a vim plugin for browsing the tags of source code files. It provides a sidebar that displays the ctags-generated tags of the current file, ordered by their scope.

Usage

• With my .vimrc file, press f5 to toggle