vim-settings for vim-python-ide

vim-python-ide provides bundled plugins to transform your vim editor into useful and comfortable python ide.

Requirements

In order to use this you should have already installed:

• vim editor
• git
• vundle
• Powerline Fonts

Installation

* Install git and vim

If you are running linux, most probably you will already have vim and git installed. As there is a great flavour of linux with different package management systems, this packages installation will not be discussed.

* Install vim-settings

This task conludes in two basic steps - download "vim-settings" and "copy" to your .vimrc file. It is always good idea to keep your previous settings backed up, so:

$ git clone https://github.com/yyovkov/vim-settings /tmp/vim-settings
$ cp ~/.vimrc ~/.orig-vimrc
$ cp ~/vim-settings/vimrc-python-ide ~/.vimrc

Consider deleting of the directory: /tmp/vim-settings.

* Install Powerline Fonts

Powerline Fonst installation is quite simple and is well described in details on github page of the project. However I'm repeating the commands here in order simplify vim-settings installation:

$ git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts /tmp/powerline_fonts
$ cd /tmp/powerline_fonts
$ ./install.sh

Consider deletion of the directory /tmp/powerline_fonts.

* Install vundle

It is supposed vundle to be already installed, however this is a single command, that can be read from the project github page, so I am adding this command here in order to minimize ones browsing different pages in internet. The command is:

$ git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
$ vim +InstallPlugin +qall

CLI Configuration

vimrc-python-ide provides bundled plugins working in GUI version of VIM. In order to use this settings in CLI (Command Line Interface) like gnome-terminal or konsole, or even in linux text-only mode, the following should be done:

Setup terminal fonts

Set the fonts of your terminal to one of your choice, provided by "Powerline fonts" from steps above. You will easy determine this fonts, as their names ends with "Powerline". As the terminals settings vary on different terminal, refer to your terminal documentation to do that.

Update vimrc-python-ide

The way GUI settings are distringuished from CLI ones is a "if" clouse. So commenting out "start" and "end" of that clause will do the job. As there are numerious "if"'s, vimrc-python-ide has idented the "GUI" section of file for better readability. So, let's do some work and comment out lines:

5 " if has("gui_running") " Start of pluggins IF

and

91 " endif " End of plugins IF