quick-vim
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Portable text exiting for devs.
the problem
When software does many things it sacrifices doing one thing very well. Instead of trying to make vim a clumsy "does it all" IDE quick-vim is lightweight, relies on simple defaults, thusly very portable and easily repeatable text editor.
solution
- three use cases: install, upgrade, and uninstall
- bash and git are the only deps
- no goofy gui tty business; this is a vimrc for a vim that lives in a shell
- pathogen for managing deps
- bundles are limited to the simple stuff and not relearning things your shell does better: like git
- no weird bundles that require re-compilation of vim or outside scripting languages
- bundle config is in a plain text file stored in the root of this directory
the bundles for me
This is a portable text editor for doing dev on the run, in a shell, probably on a temporary machine, possibly drunk. Vim is surprisingly powerful stand-alone, odds are you don't really need a particular plugin bundle. Try to work with the stock install. You'll be surprised! And less, dependant on custom schemes. (Ironic words for a vim config project, I know.)
If you do need more, you can always fork this repo, create a branch, modify the bundles.txt to your hearts desire. If you find a bundle that meets the criteria above that you think I should check out: pls send a pull request!
usage
Getting started with quick-vim is easy:
git clone git://github.com/brianleroux/quick-vim.git
cd quick-vim
./quick-vim install
You can reset to the default/previous vim env simply:
./quick-vim uninstall
Brute force upgrade everything:
./quick-vim upgrade
And thats it.