My vim configuration, for your perusal (and my history management)
I don't recommend you use my configuration out of the box. I would recommend you run through what you see here and pick and choose stuff you like. If you do want to clone and play with the repo, though, who am I to stop you? There are just a few things you should keep in mind.
Start by cloning this repo the way you normally would:
git clone [email protected]:h2g2guy/vim-files.git
You'll notice that you pull in my .vimrc (renamed to vimrc) and pathogen by tpope, but you get a bunch of extra folders hanging out. That's fine; those folders are for the plugins I use. I didn't want to just give you the files for those projects without directing you towards the fine people who made them, though, so they're submodules. If you've never used submodules before, it's a really confenient feature in git that allows you to essentially 'include' git repos in other repos. But it takes a little extra work to clone.
After cloning, step into the root directory of the files and initialize your submodule file:
cd vim-files
git submodule init
Finally, pull in the submodules. This may result in an outdated vim plugin, but since I am using exactly these files as they are in this repo, it's at least guaranteed to work!
git submodule update
Under some strange circumstances that I don't fully understand at the moment, you may end up with a strange situation where it thinks you have some staged changes. If this is the case, updating the submodules again should fix the problem.
That's probably because you haven't patched your fonts, or gone through the whole fontconfig thing. Check out the FAQ for vim-airline for more information.
Some time ago, I was very interested in a Clojure project called Overtone. This, combined with my love of vim and refusal to switch editors just to work in a new language, resulted in my searching for a solution to get a REPL in vim. I actually sort of figured out a solution to that, though it involves a bunch of nasty moving parts and whatnot that I haven't gotten around to explaining in full yet. Ping me in some way if you're interested in this solution, and I'll get on that.
Yes, I fully support suggestions and pull requests (though I have no idea why you'd want to do the latter). Bear in mind that I'm, for the most part, still a vim novice, so I might avoid plugins that I don't fully understand or that I feel would overcomplicate my experience, but all that aside, I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about my setup!
I will refuse pull requests that include the files of a plugin without using a submodule. I think credit should be given where it's due, and I think this is a great way of doing so; also, it helps me keep ALL of my plugins up to date with a simple git command!