
There are some issues with different Vim versions and color schemes which is described on ConEmu page.īefore enabling colors in Vim, install the theme first. vimrc file and on the top add this line: execute pathogen#infect()ĬonEmu supports terminal with 256 colors and it is possible to configure Vim to use color syntax highlighting in it. Then download Pathogen into vimfiles\autoload directory: curl -OutFile vimfiles\autoload\pathogen.vim To install Pathogen first create new folder vimfiles and two sub-folders - autoload and bundle in your home directory: mkdir vimfiles\autoload Pathogen is a tool which manages Vim's runtimepath so that is easy to locate plugins. Vim has lots of different useful plugins, but managing those manually might be hard. As described in Vim Wiki filetype plugin indent on allows to customize indentation per file type and it will use indentation scripts located in the indent folder of Vim installation. Set tabstop=8 softtabstop=0 expandtab shiftwidth=4 smarttabĪll settings are described well with comments except auto indentation. " Enable auto indentation custom per file type

vimrc and add following lines: " Enable syntax highlighting Open the terminal ( ConEmu) and CD into the home folder (usually C:\Users\YourUserName). Same as with ConEmu, install Vim using Chocolatey: choco install vim Then configured it to use Solarized theme and start PowerShell by default. As I am Chocolatey user, installation is easy - just type in command in console: choco install conemu I'd like to use Vim in the terminal and ConEmu console emulator is a good fit for my needs.

The first step for that is installing and setting up basic configuration. As now Vim can be used as fully featured C# (by Omnisharp) and F# (by vim-fsharp) environment, I want to use Vim as my main development environment. I've learned the basic movement and editing commands, which I am using in Vi modes in different editors - Sublime Text's Vi mode, Visual Studio's extension - VsVim, and others. I am not a new Vim user, but I have never used it as my main editor.
