Question

I don’t have much experience and I hope you guys can help me, because nobody around me can.

I am starting to work with Vim and I am setting my vimrc now, but that’s a lot of work, and I want to focus on learning how to use it, and not waste my time for now on configuring simple stuff like text highlighting or indentation, things that everybody has… So I want to use this vimrc https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim which is generally provided by Steve Francia.

The problem is that he uses gitHub, and I want to have everything locally on my machine, can you tell me how to do that? Including all the plugins, of course.

Answer 1

I would suggest just turning on the indent and syntax features you mentioned, and call it it a day. Don’t worry right now about extensions you don’t need that load themselves.

$ cat > $HOME/.vimrc
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
^D
$

Yes, I use something like his setup (I use Pathogen) and sure, it is kind of cool to just be able to clone a git module into my .vim/bundle directory, but that’s an elaborate configuration that’s just a distraction for you right now.