Getting Started

1. To make sure vim 9 is available, do this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt update

This PPA typically contains newer versions of Vim, including Vim 9. After adding the PPA, try to install vim-gtk3 again:

2. First install vim

sudo apt install vim-gtk3

3. Make sure the version of vim you installed can copy to clipboard

vim
:echo has('clipboard')

This should output 1 if vim can copy to system clipboard

If you are using Windows WSL2, you must further add the following to your .vimrc to enable copying from vim to Windows

" WSL yank support
let s:clip = '/mnt/c/Windows/System32/clip.exe'  " change this path according to your mount point
if executable(s:clip)
    augroup WSLYank
        autocmd!
        autocmd TextYankPost * if v:event.operator ==# 'y' | call system(s:clip, @0) | endif
    augroup END
endif

You may also get slow load times if the version of vim you are using has the clipboard enabled, you have the DISPLAY env variable set, and you do not have an X11 server running. To fix this, either run an X11 server with the DISPLAY environmental variable pointing to it or unset the DISPLAY variable. More info can be found here.

4. Navigate to your home dir and clone this repo

cd ~
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/reflashed/.vim

Or if you want to make changes to this repo:

cd ~
git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:reflashed/.vim.git

Remember to use the --recurse-submodules flag because the pathogen bundles are just git repos themselves

If you forget to clone the repository recursively, you can just run

git submodule update --init

from within the submodule repository you need to download.

5. Install tsserver

In your vim/neovim, run command:

:CocInstall coc-tsserver

6. Now you are ready to vim

Learning vim

The following are helpful resources for learning vim:

• vim adventures
• vim golf

Extending vim

We use pathogen to install vim plugins. To add a plugin, simply add the plugin repository to the bundle directory in this repository as a submodule.

e.g.

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git submodule add https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

You can find pathogen versions of pretty much any vim plugin on VimAwesome.

Problems

Vim not extending background color to the whole screen:

• https://serverfault.com/questions/268555/how-to-tell-vim-to-extend-the-background-color-to-the-whole-screen
• I added this to my vimrc