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$ mv ~/.vim ~/.vim-backup
$ git clone https://github.com/tony/vim-config-framework ~/.vim
$ cd ~/.vim && make complete
# open vim
$ vim
# inside vim (there may be an error, just press enter)
:PlugInstall
:q!  # quit
# open vim again
$ vim

The config scans all files with .vim extension in the first first level of these directories:

• settings/ - vim settings

(So, if you add a file settings/hiworld.vim, it will always be loaded.)

Optionally, if you want package management:

• plugins.vim - Plug package declarations
• plugins.settings/ - plugin settings

Declare your packages/bundles in plugins.vim, Plug will be installed on your behalf, as well as all Plug packages in plugins.vim.

• settings/contrib/
• plugins.settings/contrib/

are community settings you can decide to symbolic link or copy into your personal settings in settings/*.vim, and plugins.settings/*.vim as you choose.

The added benefit is these Plug declarations, bundle settings and bundles are designed to degrade gracefully, lazily load depending on the system stack, etc. Pull requests are welcome to keep these continually improved, but they are entirely optional.

• Put all your bundle (addons you want to install and use in plugins.vim (name any file you'd like) and it gets scanned in. or customize yourself manually. See plugins.d/README.rst for more.
• Lazy-loading vim plugins via Plug.
• Lazy-loading vim plugins via checking your systems stack
• Lazy-loading of plugin settings via plugins.settings.
• Automated compilation of plugins (partial)

Space - open fzf omnisearch Ctrl-m - Ag file contents search Ctrl-m - function definitions in current buffer

These conventions are derived from spf13. In order of sourcing:

• ~/.vimrc.before - ran before config
• ~/.vimrc.local
• ~/.gvimrc.local - only for gtk

• https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim (Apache 2.0 license)
• https://github.com/jpalardy/dotfiles (MIT license) for Preserve
• see other thanks in the comments inside.

MIT

Vendorizes sensible.vim, see license permission.