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This is a collection of best of breed tools from across the web,
from scouring other people's dotfile repos, blogs, and projects.
In some ways, this is an alternative to janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus), offering
many of the same plugins, with minor differnces. But it's also much more,
providing shell customizations (zsh), an irb replacement (pry) with customizations,
and osx settings that are developer friendly (such as fast key repeat),
and remapping your caps-lock to be Esc for vim.
The strongly held opinions expressed here:
What is YADR?
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* This configuration is for OSX, MacVim, zsh, and pry instead of irb.
* Apple-style philosophy: not a lot of choices, but everything Just Works and Looks Good.
**YADR is an opinionated dotfile repo that will make your heart sing**
* OSX is the best OS. MacVim is the best editor. Zsh is the best shell. Pry is the best irb. Solarized is the best color scheme.
* Apple-style philosophy: make everything Just Work and Look Good. Don't worry about too many options.
* All common commands should be two and three character mnemonic aliases - less keystrokes, RSI reduction
* Most used vim commands should be under your fingertips (home row, prefer Shift to other command keys)
* Avoid stressful hand motions, e.g. remap Esc to caps lock key, remap underscore to Alt-k in vim
* Avoid stressful hand motions, e.g. remap Esc to caps lock key, remap underscore to Alt-k in vim, make window management in vim easy.
* Easy to use plugin architecture, no config files to edit.
* Pick one tool and use it everywhere: vim-ize everything
* Colors are _important_ - solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) is a great looking scheme that is scientifically designed to be awesome.
* **NEW Beautiful, easy to read and small vimrc**
* **NEW No key overrides or custom hackery in vimrc, everything in well factored snippets in .vim/plugin/settings**
Differences from janus:
Why is this not a fork of Janus?
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Janus is an amazing _first effort_ to deliver a ready-to-use vim setup and is a huge inspiration to us all.
* Much larger and (imho) better curated list of vim plugins
* Optimized for one color scheme (solarized) means everything Just Looks Good
* Easy plugin management system using **yadr** command which is a thin shell over git submodules - no editing of config files
* No need to replace your vimrc, instead uses overridable submodules (Coming Soon)
* More than just vim plugins - great shell aliases, osx, and irb/pry tweaks to make you more productive
**However as any first effort, it paves the way to improvements:**
* Much larger list of vim plugins, specifically geared to Ruby/Rails/Git development.
* Optimized support for MacVim only means less things will break because we don't worry about linux or gvim.
* Optimized support for Solarized color scheme only, everything guaranteed to Look Good. Your eyes will thank you.
* All plugins tested with Solarized and custom color maps provided where needed to ensure your eyes will not bleed.
* No configuration file to maintain. YADR uses tiny ruby scripts to wrap git submodule maintenance.
* Much cleaner vimrc that does not introduce any new key maps. (Janus: 160 lines vimrc, 260 lines gvimrc; YADR: 90 lines vimrc with great comments)
* All keymaps and customization in small, easy to maintain files under .vim/plugin/settings
* More than just vim plugins - great shell aliases, osx, and irb/pry tweaks to make you more productive.
Before you start
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* Remap caps-lock to escape: http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html
For the love of all that is holy, stop abusing your hands!
Remap caps-lock to escape: http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html
Installation
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work by tpope, scrooloose, and many hours of scouring blogs, vimscripts,
and other places for the cream of the crop of vim awesomeness.
* http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized - a scientifically calibrated color scheme
* https://github.com/astrails/dotvim
* https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
* https://github.com/tpope