Installation

$ brew install vim
$ git clone https://github.com/oliverxchen/vim-config.git ~/vim-config
$ cd ~/vim-config
$ ./setup_vim.sh

Markdown preview installation

$ brew install grip

Usage

• Slime: open a new pane in terminal along with vim, start a named screen session (eg screen -S vim_out), back in vim select text and <Ctrl-cc> will send text to the screen session. If you don't select text, the whole paragraph will be sent.
• CtrlP: <Ctrl-p> for a fuzzy file finder.
• NERDTree: to open a folder explorer, :NERDTree within vim.
• Markdown preview: When editing a markdown file, <Ctrl-m>. Preview will appear in Chrome. <Ctrl-m> to refresh.
• There will be an error on startup of vim 8 if you don't follow these steps:
  • Find out what python version vim is using: :pythonx import sys; print(sys.path)
  • Note that path. As of this writing it was: /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/.
  • In a terminal, pip install pynvim to that python version (which is not the global python version):

  PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH" pip3 install pynvim

vim mode in VS Code

Execute the following command in a terminal to allow holding a direction to scroll:

defaults write com.microsoft.VSCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

For cursor, find the app address:

cd /Applications
mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier Cursor.app

And then use the output with the defaults write command.

Add the following to VSCode's settings.json to be able to yank into the system clipboard:

    "vim.useSystemClipboard": true

Go to the command pallete cmd+shift+P and select: "Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)" add to the keybindings.json file

// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
    {
        "key":     "cmd+j",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus"
    },
    {
        "key":     "cmd+j",
        "command": "workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup",
        "when":    "terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key":     "cmd+r",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+enter",
        "command": "-python.execInREPL",
        "when": "config.python.REPL.sendToNativeREPL && editorTextFocus && !accessibilityModeEnabled && !isCompositeNotebook && !jupyter.ownsSelection && !notebookEditorFocused && editorLangId == 'python'"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+enter",
        "command": "-python.execSelectionInTerminal",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && !findInputFocussed && !isCompositeNotebook && !jupyter.ownsSelection && !notebookEditorFocused && !replaceInputFocussed && editorLangId == 'python'"
    }
]

User settings in VS Code:

{
  "dart.flutterSdkPath": "/Users/oliverchen/src/flutter",
  "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  "vim.useSystemClipboard": true,
  "[python]": {
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
      "source.fixAll": "explicit",
      "source.organizeImports": "explicit"
    },
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "charliermarsh.ruff"
  },
  "[javascript]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 2
  },
  "[javascriptreact]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 2
  },
  "[typescript]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 2
  },
  "[typescriptreact]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 2
  },
  "files.associations": {
    ".cursorrules": "plaintext"
  },
  "git.openRepositoryInParentFolders": "never",
  "editor.accessibilitySupport": "off",
  "git.confirmSync": false
}