The document provides a comprehensive guide on using Vim, a customizable text editor, covering installation on various operating systems, basic usage, and plugin management using Git and Pathogen. It also includes information on enhancing Vim with Python support and compiling from source for advanced features. Additionally, it highlights the Vim community's humor and encourages discussions and questions.

1. PIMP ZHNG YOUR VIM
make your vim really powerful ah!

2. CALVIN CHENG
www.calvinx.com
www.od-eon.com/blogs/calvin

3. 1 What is Simi si vim?
2 Installing vim
3 The Basics

4. 4 git + pathogen + vim
5 python + vim
6
Compile source

5. 7 Funny vim

6. 1
What is Simi si vim?

7. Simple, powerful, customizable text editor

9. 2
Installing vim

10. Linux: binary via package managers or compile from source
Mac OS X (unix-style OS): via package managers or compile from source
Windows binary or compile from source
or just hop over to http://www.vim.org/
Example:
sudo aptitude install vim
sudo pacman -S vim
sudo port install vim

11. 3
The Basics

12. Start point for beginners
vimtutor

13. Modes you will become familiar with
normal mode
visual mode
select mode
operator pending mode
insert mode
command-line mode

14. Customization (Where you begin ‘zhng-ing’)
.vimrc
.vim directory

16. 4
git + pathogen + vim

17. What is pathogen.vim?
Manage your runtime paths
Clean organization of your vim plugins
No more manual plugin upgrades!

19. Getting infected with pathogen
Install to ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
How:
mkdir -p ~/.vim/{autoload,bundle}
curl -so ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/HEAD/autoload/pathogen.vim

20. Getting infected with pathogen
Add this to your .vimrc file:
call pathogen#infect()

21. Managing plugins with git - super easy!
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git

22. Some of my favorite plugins
Conque-Shell
IndentAnything
fugitive
nerdcommenter
nerdtree
python.vim
django.vim
vim-javascript
mxml.vim

23. 5
python + vim

24. You know the drill...
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/vim-scripts/python.vim--Vasiliev.git python.vim

25. Not just Python syntax/indentation support

27. 6
compile vim from source

28. Default binary package may not have all features
+clipboard
+X11
+python
+python3
+ruby
... etc

29. Take matters into your own hands!
Compile from source
Traditional compilation, download package, ./configure [option]
Or if you use linux OSes with powerful build tools (e.g. ABS for
Arch, emerge/ebuild for Gentoo)
Specify specific features/options to be enabled during
compilation, e.g. in PKGBUILD for arch

30. 7
Funny vim

31. Great community, Great sense of humor
:help 42
:help!
:help quotes
:help holy-grail

32. Great community, Great sense of humor
#vim on irc freenode
http://vim.wikia.com

33. Stefan Talpalaru Liviu Bogdan Chiributa Chng Nai Yun That’s Me! :-)
+ ........

34. Questions and Discussion welcome!
calvin.cheng@od-eon.com