vim

bdd's Vim

Version

Target version is Vim 8 on macOS and Linux.

Installation

Fix your xterm-256color first

macOS High Sierra still ships with a busted terminfo for xterm-256color. It is missing escape codes for italics even though Terminal.app supports them.

I recommend patching instead of creating a variant.

% export TERM=xterm-256color
% {infocmp && echo -e '\tsitm=\E[3m, ritm=\E[23m,'} > ~/.$TERM-patched.terminfo && tic ~/.$TERM-patched.terminfo

Tmux with set -g default-terminal xterm-256color works as expected after fixing terminfo.

A font family with italics

You won't see italics in the terminal if your choice of font family doesn't have them. Under macOS, Monaco—the default monospaced typeface, doesn't have italics, but Menlo does.

I find Go Mono family to be delightful both in the terminal and GUI. If you use Homebrew, you can install them from 'homebrew/cask-fonts' Homebrew Tap.

% brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
% brew cask install font-go-mono

Install third party plugins

Third party plugins are managed with minpac, a minimal package manager for Vim 8, using native support for packages. It clones and updates plug-in repositories from GitHub.

To bootstrap:

% vim --cmd 'call install#()'