DotVim

Help vim beginner get a powerful vim environment quickly.

Features

PowerBy	Feature
a.vim	A few of quick commands to swtich between source files and header files quickly.
bufexplorer.zip	Quickly and easily switch between buffers by using the one of the default public interfaces.
genutils	Some common functions. Used by, for example, lookupfile.
grep.vim	Allows you to search for a pattern by grep in one or more files and jump to them.
lookupfile	Opening files by typing a pattern to represent the file you are looking for.
Marks-Browser	Provides a graphical browsers of the user marks for the local file [a-z].
mark.vim	Highlight target words.
mkview.vim	Emulate the |mkview| function of vim without requiring the creation of |view-file|s.
OmniCppComplete	Omni completion (intellisense) in C and C++ files.
python-mode	Provide features like python code looking for bugs, refactoring and some other useful things.
ShowMarks	ShowMarks provides a visual representation of the location marks.
snipMate	An unobtrusive, concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features.
supertab	Supertab is a vim plugin which allows you to use for all your insert completion needs.
taglist.vim	Overview of the structure of source code files and allows efficiently browse through source code files.
vim-matchit	Configure % to match more than just single characters, and allow match by file type.
vim-pandoc	Writing and editing documents in pandoc's extended markdown.
vim-pathogen	Easy to install plugins and runtime files in their own private directories.
vim-surround	Surround.vim is all about "surroundings": parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more.
vis	Performs an arbitrary Ex command on a visual highlighted block.
VisIncr	Facilitates making a column of increasing or decreasing numbers, dates, or daynames.
winmanager--Fox	A windows style IDE for vim.
xml.vim	A plugin for editing xml.

Installation

1. Install git and vim.

sudo apt-get install vim git		# for debian/ubuntu

2. Get Dotvim source.

 # NOTICE: MUST get sources to ~/.vim
git clone git://github.com/quchunguang/dotvim.git ~/.vim

3. Configure.

 # Backup and remove ~/.vimrc if you already have one.
ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
cd ~/.vim
git submodule init
git submodule update

Further Notes

Create this repos, synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen, vim-pathogen home for detail,

 # Add  new repos with name "dotvim" in my github, then
cd ~/.vim
mv ~/.vimrc vimrc
ln -s vimrc ~/.vimrc
git init
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m 'Initialize commit'
git remote add origin https://github.com/quchunguang/dotvim.git
git push origin master

Add a new plugin,

cd ~/.vim
git submodule add http://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git bundle/fugitive
git add .
git commit -m "Install Fugitive.vim bundle as a submodule."

Update all submodules,

cd ~/.vim
git submodule foreach git pull origin master

Reinitialize all resposes from exist bundle/* (not submodules) to this all-in-one repos (as submodules),

cd ~/.vim
for d in bundle/*; do (cd $d && git remote -v show;) done | grep fetch | awk '{print $2}' > /tmp/list
rm -rf bundle && mkdir bundle
for f in `cat /tmp/list`; do name=${f##*/}; git submodule add "$f" "bundle/${name%.git}"; done
git commit -m 'reinitialize all reposes from exist bundle'
git push

Reference