verron / remote-vim

Remote vim setup

Initial Setup

Go to Home Directory and Remove old .vim folder.

cd ~
mv .vim .vim.bak

Don't forget to source the file

vim .vimrc

Add "source .vim/.vimrc" to the file without quotations

Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/Verron/remote-vim .vim

Install Plugins

cd .vim
git submodule init
git submodule update

Add new Plugin

Change Pathogen install method of

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone [plugin repository] [repository name]

to

cd ~/.vim
git submodule add [plugin repository] bundle/[repository name] 

Dependency

CTags

sudo apt-get install ctags

Powerline Fonts

Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/283908/how-can-i-install-and-use-powerline-plugin

wget https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
sudo mv PowerlineSymbols.otf /usr/share/fonts/
sudo fc-cache -vf
sudo mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Terminator Solarized Scheme

See https://github.com/ghuntley/terminator-solarized for more detail

mkdir ~/.config/terminator
cp ~/.vim/configurations/terminator/config ~/.config/terminator/

CentOS/RHEL and older VIM

CentOS's repositories contain an older version of VIM. Enter the following to upgrade. This has been tested on CentOS 6.5. If you have permission issues, try using sudo

Install/Upgrade Python

To choose a version of Python newer than 2.7.9, visit https://www.python.org/ftp/python/

yum groupinstall -y 'development tools'
yum install -y zlib-dev openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel xz-libs
cd && wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.9/Python-2.7.9.tar.xz
xz -d Python-2.7.9.tar.xz
tar -xvf Python-2.7.9.tar && rm -f Python-2.7.9.tar
cd Python-2.7.9/ && ./configure && make && make altinstall
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7

Install/Upgrade VIM

Remove yum's VIM and compile from source

yum remove -y vim
yum install -y python-devel

Install ctrlp-cmatcher

Faster than the matcher used using vimscript

sudo apt-get install python-dev
cd bundle/ctrlp-cmatcher/
./install.sh