Vim workshop at downgrade hackerspace.

This evening in zaragoza we were assisting at the VIM Workshop organished by the downgrade hackerspace. I was (supposedly) one of the speackers, even tough I didn’t have in mind any kind of speech. I planned it as a de-centralized workshop, but people seemed to not understand that.

Thanks god that meskio was there, to use his social habilities to get things started. It ended up being a producitve workshop, were all of us gained some vim knowledge. I learned some curious tricks, and the vim local_vimrc plugin, wich allows you to have nested vimrc files.

After all this workshop installing and messing with plugins and pathogen, I came up with yet another vim configuration starter, wich you can find here. This script will (remember to clean your env first) install pathogen, configure it and install nerdtree, conqueshell and VimBlog in bundles dir.

It’s basically a five-liner, wich will end up with a pathogen-enabled .vim directory and a few useful plugins, wich can be configured:

plugins=( "The-NERD-tree" "Conque-Shell" "vimblog.vim" )
wget -nd -P .vim/autoload https://github.com/vim-scripts/pathogen.vim/raw/master/plugin/pathogen.vim
wget http://lh-vim.googlecode.com/svn/misc/trunk/plugin/local_vimrc.vim -nd -P .vim/bundle/local_vimrc/plugin/
grep 'call pathogen#infect()' ~/.vimrc || { echo -e "\ncall pathogen#infect()\nlet g:local_vimrc=".vimrc"\n" >> ~/.vimrc; }
cd .vim/bundle && for i in ${plugins[@]}; do git clone https://github.com/vim-scripts/$i; done