Setting Up gVim (_vimrc) on Windows

Step 1: Install Vim

First, make sure you have Vim installed on your Windows machine.

Step 2: Install Pathogen

Pathogen is a Vim plugin manager that simplifies the process of installing and managing plugins. To install Pathogen on Windows, follow these steps:

PowerShell 7.4.2 PS C:\Users\jason>

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $HOME\vimfiles\autoload, $HOME\vimfiles\bundle Directory: C:\Users\jason\vimfiles Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 2024-06-02 9:47 PM autoload d---- 2024-06-02 9:47 PM bundle PS C:\Users\jason>

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim -OutFile $HOME\vimfiles\autoload\pathogen.vim

PS C:\Users\jason> cd $HOME\vimfiles\bundle

PS C:\Users\jason\vimfiles\bundle> git clone https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes.git Cloning into 'vim-colorschemes'... remote: Enumerating objects: 1828, done. remote: Total 1828 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1828Receiving... Receiving objects: 100% (1828/1828), 1.93 MiB | 629.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (615/615), done. warning: the following paths have collided (e.g. case-sensitive paths on a case-insensitive filesystem) and only one from the same colliding group is in the working tree: 'colors/darkBlue.vim' 'colors/darkblue.vim' PS C:\Users\jason\vimfiles\bundle>

Step 3: Update "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc"

  " Basic settings

  execute pathogen#infect()

  syntax on

  filetype plugin indent on

 

  set hlsearch " Highlight search results

  set nu " Show line numbers

  set autoindent " Enable automatic indentation

  set scrolloff=2 " Keep at least 2 lines above and below the cursor

  set wildmode=longest,list " Command-line completion mode

  set tabstop=4 " Set tab width to 4 spaces

  set shiftwidth=4 " Set indentation width to 4 spaces

  set expandtab " Use spaces instead of tabs

  set smartindent " Enable smart indentation

  set cindent " Enable C-style indentation

  set smartcase " Case-insensitive search unless uppercase is used

  set incsearch " Show matching results while typing search query

  set backspace=eol,start,indent " Enable backspace in insert mode

  set history=256 " Set command history length

  set laststatus=2 " Always display the status line

  set showmatch " Highlight matching parentheses

 

  " File encoding settings

  set encoding=utf-8

  set fileencoding=utf-8

  set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,cp949,latin1

 

  " UI settings

  set ruler " Show the cursor position

  set statusline=%<%l:%v\ [%P]%=%a\ %h%m%r\ %F\ " Custom status line

  colorscheme codeschool " Set color scheme

  set guifont=D2Coding:h12 " Set GUI font and size

 

  " Backup and undo settings

  set backup " Enable backup file creation

  set undofile " Save undo history to file

  set backupdir=C:\Temp " Set backup file directory

  set directory=C:\Temp " Set swap file directory

  set undodir=C:\Temp " Set undo file directory

 

  " Enable syntax highlighting

  if has("syntax")

    syntax on

  endif

 

  " Locale settings

  let $LANG = 'ko_KR.UTF-8'

 

  " Windows style key bindings and menu settings

  source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim " Enable Windows-style key bindings

  behave mswin " Enable Windows-style behavior

  source $VIMRUNTIME/delmenu.vim " Delete existing menu items

  source $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim " Load default menu items