Thanks to these guys:

• Gary Bernhardt,
• Drew Neil,
• Tim Pope,
• and the Janus project.

My configuration uses Pathogen and git submodules. (But you don't need to care about any of that.)

Prerequisites: ruby, git.

1. Move your existing configuration somewhere else:
   mv ~/.vim* ~/.gvim* my_backup
2. Clone this repo into ".vim":
   git clone https://github.com/mislav/vimfiles ~/.vim
3. Go into ".vim" and run "rake":
   cd ~/.vim && rake

This will install "/.vimrc" and "/.gvimrc" symlinks that point to files inside the ".vim" directory.

• 2 spaces, no tabs
• incremental, case-insensitive search
• <CR> - remove highlighting after search
• <Space> - toggle current fold
• vertical split goes right, horizontal split goes below
• <C-j/k/h/l> - switch between splits (no need to prepend <C-w>)
• cursor keys for movement are disabled!
• Q - format lines
• ,cf - search for merge conflicts in buffer
• :KillWhitespace - strip trailing whitespace

• ,, - toggle between two recently open buffers
• <C-p> - fuzzy file search
• <C-P> - search in directory of current buffer
• :CtrlP [dir] - search files
• :CtrlBuffer - search buffers
• :CtrlPTag - search tags
• :CtrlPBufTag - search tags in current buffer
• :CtrlPMixed - search in files, buffers and MRU

Inside the CtrlP prompt:

• <C-j/k> - move down/up between file matches
• <C-n/p> - next/previous string in prompt's history
• <C-s/v> - open file in new horizontal/vertical split
• <C-y> - create a new file and its parent directories
• <C-z> - mark a file to be opened with <C-o>
• <C-o> - open marked files

• :Ack -w foo_bar
• :Ack! - search, but don't jump to first match
• :AckFromSearch
• :AckAdd - append to existing quickfix list

In the quickfix window:

• o - open file
• go - preview file, i.e. keep focus in quickfix window
• t (T) - open in a new tab (silently)
• h (H) - open in horizontal split (silently)
• v (gv) - open in vertical split (silently)

• cs"' - change string from double to single quotes
• ds( - delete surrounding parentheses
• ysiW] - surround current WORD with square brackets
• ysst - surround current line in a HTML tag
• ysip<c-t> - nest current paragraph in a HTML tag

Visual mode: S. Insert mode: <c-s>.

Surround + rails.vim:

• - → <% -%>
• = → <%= %>
• # → <%# %>
• e - nest block and append end keyword
• E - like e, but prompt for text to prepend before block

• \\{motion} - comment/uncomment lines that {motion} moves over
• \\\ - comment/uncomment [count] lines
• {Visual}\\ - comment/uncomment the highlighted lines
• \\u - uncomment the current and adjacent commented lines

Motions:

• ]m / [m - next / previous method
• ]M / [M - end of method definition
• ]] / [[ - next / previous class/module
• ][ / [] - end of class/module

Text objects:

• am - a method
• im - inner method
• aM - a class
• iM - inner class

• :[range]CoffeeCompile [vert] - compile JavaScript into new buffer
• :CoffeeCompile watch [vert] - open auto-updating JavaScript buffer
• :[range]CoffeeLint (needs coffeelint)
• :[range]CoffeeRun - run the resulting JavaScript

% alternates between matching HTML tags, class/control flow statements and matching end in Ruby, and more. Also works in visual mode.

In visual mode:

• :Tabularize assignment
• :Tabularize argument_list
• :Tabularize /=>

• :Gcommit

• :Gstatus

  • jump between lines that represent files with <c-n>, <c-p>
  • - - add/reset file (visual mode too)
  • <Enter> - open current file in the window below
  • p - run git add --patch for current file
  • C - invoke :Gcommit

• :[range]Gbrowse! - - copy GitHub URL for code that's currently selected

• :[range]Gblame

• :Gedit feature:% - version of the current file in the "feature" branch

• :Gwrite - add %

• :Gread - checkout %

• :Gremove - rm %

• :Gmove <dest> - mv % <dest>

• :Rename[!]
• :SudoWrite
• :Remove[!]
• :Find[!] {args} - run find and load results into quickfix
• when you create a file that starts with a shebang, it gets chmod +x automatically on first save!

Quickly open vim runtime files:

• :Vedit
• :Vsplit
• :Vvsplit
• :Vtabedit
• :Vpedit
• :Vread

Example:

:Vsp s/pd<Tab>