#Vim Settings

I set up a repository to easily sync my vim settings across multiple computers. This setup takes advantage of the pathogen plugin to keep plugins in their own directories, and thus easily syncable.

#Set Up

First, I initialized a git repository in the ~/.vim/ folder. Then, I moved my old .vimrc into the .vim folder and created a symbolic link from the dotfile in the home directory to the one in the repository with the following commands:

cd
ln -s .vim/.vimrc .vimrc

Unfortunately, vim does not play nice with symbolic links on Windows. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version. For now, I've found the best workaround is to create a minimal _vimrc in the User's home directory with the following line:

source $HOME\vimfiles\.vimrc

The same process must be followed for the .gvimrc for GUI settings. Then, the real .vimrc will fix the $MYVIMRC and $MYGVIMRC variables to point to the correct files in case a plugin needs to resource them.

Keeping my vim settings the same across computers is now as easy as executing :BundleInstall! while inside vim. I have included a vimscript that will set up Vundle on first installation, and update all plugins to simplify the process of cloning vim settings into new computers.