My favourite vim modules

.vimrc

" File: .vimrc
" Author: Jake Zimmerman <jake@zimmerman.io>
"
" How I configure Vim :P
"

" Gotta be first
set nocompatible

filetype off

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'

" ----- Making Vim look good ------------------------------------------
" Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'
Plugin 'tomasr/molokai'
Plugin 'bling/vim-airline'

" ----- Vim as a programmer's text editor -----------------------------
Plugin 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plugin 'jistr/vim-nerdtree-tabs'
Plugin 'scrooloose/syntastic'
Plugin 'xolox/vim-misc'
Plugin 'xolox/vim-easytags'
Plugin 'majutsushi/tagbar'
Plugin 'kien/ctrlp.vim'
Plugin 'vim-scripts/a.vim'

" ----- Working with Git ----------------------------------------------
Plugin 'airblade/vim-gitgutter'
Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'

" ----- Other text editing features -----------------------------------
Plugin 'Raimondi/delimitMate'

" ----- man pages, tmux -----------------------------------------------
Plugin 'jez/vim-superman'
Plugin 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator'

" ----- Syntax plugins ------------------------------------------------
Plugin 'jez/vim-c0'
Plugin 'jez/vim-ispc'
Plugin 'kchmck/vim-coffee-script'

" ---- Extras/Advanced plugins ----------------------------------------
" Highlight and strip trailing whitespace
Plugin 'ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace'
" Easily surround chunks of text
Plugin 'tpope/vim-surround'
" Align CSV files at commas, align Markdown tables, and more
Plugin 'godlygeek/tabular'
" Automaticall insert the closing HTML tag
Plugin 'HTML-AutoCloseTag'
" Make tmux look like vim-airline (read README for extra instructions)
Plugin 'edkolev/tmuxline.vim'
" All the other syntax plugins I use
Plugin 'ekalinin/Dockerfile.vim'
Plugin 'digitaltoad/vim-jade'
Plugin 'tpope/vim-liquid'

Plugin 'cakebaker/scss-syntax.vim'
Plugin 'aurigadl/vim-angularjs'
Plugin 'jelera/vim-javascript-syntax'
Plugin 'pangloss/vim-javascript'
Plugin 'nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides'
Plugin 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe'
Plugin 'marijnh/tern_for_vim'

Plugin 'severin-lemaignan/vim-minimap'

call vundle#end()

filetype plugin indent on

" --- General settings ---
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set ruler
set number
set showcmd
set incsearch
set hlsearch

let g:syntastic_check_on_open=1
let g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt=0
let g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf=0
set completeopt-=preview

set nowrap

" size of a hard tabstop
set tabstop=2

" size of an "indent"
set shiftwidth=2

" a combination of spaces and tabs are used to simulate tab stops at a width
" other than the (hard)tabstop
set softtabstop=2

:set regexpengine=1
:syntax enable

syntax on

let mapleader="²"

set mouse=a

" ----- Plugin-Specific Settings --------------------------------------

" Toggle this to "light" for light colorscheme
set background=dark

set t_Co=256
syntax on
set background=dark
colorscheme distinguished


" ----- bling/vim-airline settings -----
" Always show statusbar
set laststatus=2

" Fancy arrow symbols, requires a patched font
" To install a patched font, run over to
"     https://github.com/abertsch/Menlo-for-Powerline
" download all the .ttf files, double-click on them and click "Install"
" Finally, uncomment the next line
" let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1

" set guifont=Literation\ Mono\ Powerline

" Show PASTE if in paste mode
let g:airline_detect_paste=1

" Show airline for tabs too
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1


" ----- jistr/vim-nerdtree-tabs -----
" Open/close NERDTree Tabs with \t
nmap <silent> <leader>² :NERDTreeTabsToggle<CR>
" To have NERDTree always open on startup
let g:nerdtree_tabs_open_on_console_startup = 0


" ----- scrooloose/syntastic settings -----
let g:syntastic_error_symbol = '✘'
let g:syntastic_warning_symbol = "▲"
augroup mySyntastic
  au!
  au FileType tex let b:syntastic_mode = "passive"
augroup END


" ----- xolox/vim-easytags settings -----
" Where to look for tags files
set tags=./tags;,~/.vimtags
" Sensible defaults
let g:easytags_events = ['BufReadPost', 'BufWritePost']
let g:easytags_async = 1
let g:easytags_dynamic_files = 2
let g:easytags_resolve_links = 1
let g:easytags_suppress_ctags_warning = 1

" ----- majutsushi/tagbar settings -----
" Open/close tagbar with \b
nmap <silent> <leader>b :TagbarToggle<CR>
" Uncomment to open tagbar automatically whenever possible
" autocmd BufEnter * nested :call tagbar#autoopen(0)


" ----- airblade/vim-gitgutter settings -----
" Required after having changed the colorscheme
hi clear SignColumn
" In vim-airline, only display "hunks" if the diff is non-zero
let g:airline#extensions#hunks#non_zero_only = 1


" ----- Raimondi/delimitMate settings -----
let delimitMate_expand_cr = 1
augroup mydelimitMate
  au!
  au FileType markdown let b:delimitMate_nesting_quotes = ["`"]
  au FileType tex let b:delimitMate_quotes = ""
  au FileType tex let b:delimitMate_matchpairs = "(:),[:],{:},`:'"
  au FileType python let b:delimitMate_nesting_quotes = ['"', "'"]
augroup END

" yui-compressor and closure-compiler and less and scss:
" http://blog.othree.net/log/2009/12/26/javascript-on-vim/
function! Fe_compress ()
    let cwd = expand('%:p:h')
    let nam = expand('%:t:r')
    let ext = expand('%:e')
    let cssnam = nam.'.css'

    if ext == 'less'
        if filewritable(cwd.'/'.cssnam)
          cal system( 'lessc '.cwd.'/'.nam.'.'.ext.' > '.cwd.'/'.cssnam.' &')
          cal Css_compress()
        endif
    elseif ext == 'scss'
        if filewritable(cwd.'/'.cssnam)
          cal system( 'sass '.cwd.'/'.nam.'.'.ext.' > '.cwd.'/'.cssnam.' &')
          cal Css_compress()
        endif
    elseif ext == 'css'
        cal Css_compress()
    elseif ext == 'js'
        if -1 == match(nam, "[\._]src$")
            let minfname = nam.".min.".ext
        else
            let minfname = substitute(nam, "[\._]src$", "", "g").".".ext
        endif
        if filewritable(cwd.'/'.minfname)
            cal system( s:jscompressor.' '.cwd.'/'.nam.'.'.ext.' > '.cwd.'/'.minfname.' &')
        endif
    endif
endfunction

function! Css_compress ()
		let cwd = expand('%:p:h')
    let nam = expand('%:t:r')
    let ext = "css"
    if -1 == match(nam, "[\._]src$")
        let minfname = nam.".min.".ext
    else
        let minfname = substitute(nam, "[\._]src$", "", "g").".".ext
    endif
    if filewritable(cwd.'/'.minfname)
        cal system( 'yui-compressor '.cwd.'/'.nam.'.'.ext.' > '.cwd.'/'.minfname.' &')
    endif
endfunction

if executable('uglifyjs') || executable('closure-compiler') || executable('closure') || executable('yui-compressor')
    autocmd FileWritePost,BufWritePost *.js :call Fe_compress()
    if executable('uglifyjs')
        let s:jscompressor = 'uglifyjs'
    elseif executable('closure-compiler')
        let s:jscompressor = 'closure-compiler --js'
    elseif executable('closure')
        let s:jscompressor = 'closure --js'
    elseif executable('yui-compressor')
        let s:jscompressor = 'yui-compressor'
    endif
endif
if executable('lessc')
    autocmd FileWritePost,BufWritePost *.less :call Fe_compress()
endif
if executable('sass')
    autocmd FileWritePost,BufWritePost *.scss :call Fe_compress()
endif
if executable('yui-compressor')
    autocmd FileWritePost,BufWritePost *.css :call Css_compress()
endif

save this to ~/.vimrc
run
sudo apt-get install git python-dev vim-nox cmake build-essential nodejs npm uglifyjs closure-compiler yui-compressor
npm install -g tern
mkdir ~/.vim/colors
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lokaltog/vim-distinguished/develop/colors/distinguished.vim ~/.vim/colors
git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
vim +PluginInstall +qall
~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/install.py --clang-completer

The leader key is ²
Toggle file explorer ²+²
Open file in new tab t
Switch cursor between files explorer and file editor Ctrl+w+w
Switch between tabs g+t or g+T