Vim: Tutorial on Customization and Configuration (2020)

Leeren explains how to configure and customize Vim organically using native features without relying on external plugins.

Wondering how to organize Vim natively? Here's 8 tips to 🔥maximize🔥 your Vim productivity! 📔 View the Vim presentation slides: bit.ly/2yD63Gb Often we tend to stuff our vimrc files to the point where maintainability becomes impossible , or download so many external plugins that we forget this functionality is provided by Vim natively. In this talk, we explore how to organically and effectively 🛠️configure🛠️ Vim with no external plugins whatsoever. We'll be exploring the following, each with practical demos to follow along: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Configuration Basics 16:23 Syntax & Highlighting 31:24 Filetype Detection 35:04 Autoload Scripts 43:44 Native Compile Options 54:38 File-specific Plugins 1:00:27 Global Plugins 1:12:46 Packages 1:21:34 Portability IMPORTANT: I said two things that were incorrect during the demonstration, and unfortunately the text that should have been displayed for pointing out the corrections synced a few minutes later. Here are the corrections: 13:58 - plus sign register = clipboard register, NOT unnamed register (correction shows @ 15:54) 19:01 - set path+=. means current file, not current directory (correction shows @ 20:53) What was your favorite tip? What's your favorite Vim feature? Let me know in the comments! 🎉 Contact Me: instagram.com/leerenchang/ facebook.com/leerenchang twitter.com/leeren Subscribe: youtube.com/c/LeerenChang