Vim’s basics are fairly simple, but in combination the simple commands become powerful. This is my Vim configuration tree, used and tweaked over a year. Most of the time I'm writing code. So it's focused on faster writing, completion and navigation.

Although a vimrc is a very personal thing, I believe there are some settings/configs that you could use to improve your Vim setup, so I have commented most settings. Feel free to explore it and use pieces from it (or use it in it's entirety, but I don't think that would really be useful).

In particular, there's a nice config for Neocomplete. These days it's somewhat geared towards Linux and Windows, but it is known to also work on MacOS X.

How to update to latest version?

Simply just do a git rebase!

cd ~/.vimrc
git pull --rebase

Manually install on Windows

1. Check out from github

    cd C:\Program Files\Vim   (or your installed path to Vim)
    rmdir /s vimfiles         (This deletes your old vim configurations. If you want to keep it, use move instead of rmdir.)
    git clone git://github.com/ehartc/dot-vimrc.git vimfiles
    git submodule update --init
   

2. Install vimrc. Add the following line at the end of C:\Program Files\Vim\vimrc

    source $VIM/vimfiles/vimrc
   

That's it.