1. Installation requirements

   • Python 2.7 and/or 3 (32 bit) with correct setup in PATH environment variable
   • Visual Studio
   • CMake (Make sure it's in your PATH environment variable)
   • 7-Zip
   • ConEmu

2. Installing Vim / GVim on Windows

   • Go to the Vim website to download Vim
   • Make sure to select a full installation
   • Make sure to install at the location C:\Users\phili\Vim
   • Inside \Vim, clear the contents of \Vim\vimfiles and create a directory called "bundle"
   • Cut and paste the directory "autoload" from \Vim\vim80 to \Vim\vimfiles
   • Use the _vimrc provided in the repository in \Vim
   • Make sure to run the command with the appropriate directory: "git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git /c/Users/pgarneau/Vim/v imfiles/bundle/Vundle.vim"

3. Setup Vundle

   • As long as you followed the previous steps exactly, Vundle should work out of the box.
   • If you are having trouble writing to temp files, you can change the TEMP and TMP environment variables to C:\temp
   • To install the plugins in your _vimrc, run the command ":PluginInstall"
   • Reset your gvim window to see the changes
   • You might be getting a few errors regarding certain plugins that should be resolved in the following steps

4. Setup Powerline

   • Inside your command line or bash, run the following command: pip install --user git+git://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
   • Go to https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts and download the Inconsolata.otf file
   • Double click on the downloaded otf file and install it to windows
   • As long as you have the _vimrc from this repo, your powerline should now be working
   • For Mac OS X, follow instructions at https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/osx.html

5. Setup YouCompleteMe

   • Change directory to where YouCompleteMe is installed: cd ~/Vim/vimfiles/bundle/YouCompleteMe
   • To install support for python and C-family languages, run: python install.py --clang-completer
   • YouCompleteMe supports many other languages, but they need to be installed on your computer. If they are installed, you can run: python install.py --all
   • You should now be all set
   • For Mac OS X, make sure you have Cmake installed (brew install cmake), then go into the YouCompleteMe directory ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe and run "./install.py"

6. Setup Flake8

   • Make sure to run pip install flake8 before trying to use the plugin in Vim
   • (MAC) Change Max Line length by going to ~/.config/flake8 and write: [flake8] max-line-length = 120
   • (WINDOWS) Change Max Line length by going to ~/.flake8 or create it if needed and write: [flake8] max-line-length = 120

7. Setup Grep search

   • Follow steps at: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=311