Customizing VIM (Part N)

As I’ve been reading about VIM and learning trick I’ve been customizing it, too. Here is my current setup and what it does:

 1 set rtp+=~/.vim

Windows does not load from the ~/.vim directory the way that *Nix does. Fix this.

 2 source ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
 3 call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
 4 call pathogen#helptags()

Pathogen manages my plugins. This loads and initialized pathogen.

 5 set number
 6 filetype plugin indent on
 7 syntax on

I want numbered listings, indents and signal coloring on

 8 set visualbell

When I make a mistake I don’t want to hear a stupid bell, but I do want to know about it.

9 set guifont=Courier_New:h9:cANSI 

This gives me a nicer font than the default

The code that follows is a nice idea for keeping track of my mode. In normal mode the screen is light green. When I go into insert mode it’s light yellow:

10 :highlight Normal guibg=#CBF2C7
11 noremap i :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>i
12 noremap o :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>o
13 noremap s :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>s
14 noremap a :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>a
15 noremap I :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>I
16 noremap O :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>O
17 noremap S :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>S
18 noremap A :highlight Normal guibg=#f8fab4<cr>A
19 
20 "You need the next line to change the color back when you hit escape.
21 inoremap <Esc> <Esc>:highlight Normal guibg=#CBF2C7<cr>
22 
23 "Note: the color "Sys_Window" works for Windows only. 
24 "If running linux, use white or lightgrey instead.
25 set lines=40 columns=80

The colors, like #f8fab4 came from http://www.colorpicker.com

Finally, the nicely colored display of my data came from using the vim script ‘TOhtml’ which renders the selected part of a window and saves it.

 

Well, almost finally. Here is a page with a whole bunch of VIM color schemes.

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