This is my .vim directory put in a git repository since I saw more people doing it and I thought it was a terrific idea.
So what does make it particularly interesting?
If you have a look at vimrc you'll see what I mean with miscellaneous!
By default it makes vim highlight the line the cursor is in, enables syntax highlighting, uses TABs instead of spaces (YES I PREFER TABS, accept it or stop reading!), also has some shortcuts for toggling white spaces, and the NERDtree file explorer.
I am using my own color scheme (imaginatively named "sole"), which is still very rough because I just began learning about vim's color schemes yesterday. It looks much nicer in gvim than in gnome-terminal because the latter only allows for 16 palettised colours whereas gvim allows you to choose RGB colours.
If you don't like it... well, there are many other themes out there! See this handy visual guide: http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-c.html
Clone to a folder of your liking, e.g. ~/data/dotvim
git clone git@github.com:sole/dotvim.git ~/data/dotvimThe line above works for me. It might not work if you don't have SSH nicely set up, in which case you might want to clone using the https:// protocol.
Then create a symbolic link to your ~/.vim folder:
cd ~/data/dotvim
ln -s ~/data/dotvim ~/.vimThat will not work if you already have a .vim directory.
Then run ./install.sh to finish installing the plug-ins.
cd ~/data/dotvim
./install.shThese are my inspirations/sources of knowledge:
I got the idea for the symlink to .vimrc here (and learnt that it has to be in ~/.vimrc) https://github.com/vgod/vimrc
A good guide about making Vim more comfortable for writing in Python. http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/02/python-and-vim-make-your-own-ide/