Vim: Tutorial on Customization and Configuration (2020)

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!

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