iwalz / vim-c

A VIM setup, optimized for C development

VIM Setup, optimized for C development

Since a long time, I was looking for different Editors and IDEs for C development. But I noticed, I'm not really happy about them at all. And I always fallback to the console, doing different things. Either running your programs with valgrind, using gdb from the command line - or even objdump. And I'm quite familar with the fantastic editor vim. So I decided to switch to vim for development and optimize it, according to my needs.

This is a self-plugined and configured installation of vim, using the power of dot-files and folders.

There are already some full-configured projects, such as spf13's The Ultimate Vim Distribution - but I decided to build my own one.

Installation

To install that setup, run

curl https://raw.github.com/iwalz/vim-c/master/install.sh | bash

I suggest to start without a .vimrc and .vim directory. Dependencies are ctags (supertab) and python support (conque shell) enabled in vim.

If you want to setup splice as your git merge tool, run

curl https://raw.github.com/iwalz/vim-c/master/configure_vimdiff.sh | bash

Putty settings

To use vim through ssh via putty needs a few additional settings in putty. It's most likely linked to the commands, sent by putty for Del, Backspace etc.

Features

• File Browser
• Open/Search File Shortcut
• Integrated bash
• Code outline
• Code completion
• Tabs
• Better statusbar
• Syntax highlighting
• Merge Tool

Plugins

There are quite a lot cool vim plugins around - I guess it's even too much to keep the overview. The plugins are managed via pathogen, using git-submodules. This helps to keep your .vim directory clean and your plugins up to date. And it's quite easy ... The plugins, I use in this setup:

1. Conque-Shell (vim.org)

2. CtrlP (vim.org)

3. delimitMate (vim.org)

4. Neocomplcache (vim.org)

5. NerdTree (vim.org)

6. Supertab (vim.org)

7. syntastic (vim.org)

8. tagbar (vim.org)

9. airline (vim.org)

10. fugitive (vim.org)

11. NerdTree-Tabs

12. Surround (vim.org)

13. Splice (vim.org)