I have enough of heavyweight, sometimes cluttered IDEs. I don’t know, maybe I’m getting too old-school or something, but I find myself working faster with plain old vim.
Of course, over time I have been optimizing the editor with the addition of several plugins and customization of its settings.
Here is my current vim setup focused on HTML, JS, CSS and PHP programming:
- Install NERDTree
This gives you a nice tree view of the filesystem. - Install IndentAnything
Name says it all. - Install JavaScript indentation
A nice JS indentation for IndentAnything - Install JSLint
Validates the code for compilation errors as well as styling and informs you of this, almost in real-time!
You might want to throw in some visual enhancements as well. The railscasts color scheme along with the Monaco font are a pretty good combination.
Finally, my .vimrc file:
"Keyboard mappings
map :NERDTreeToggle
"FileType support
set filetype=on
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
"Color scheme and font
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php colorscheme railscasts
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set gfn=Monaco\ 10
"Hightlight current line
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php autocmd InsertLeave * set nocursorline
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php autocmd InsertEnter * set cursorline
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php highlight CursorLine ctermbg=40 cterm=NONE
"Indentation
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set ai
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set sw=2
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set ts=2
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set sts=2
autocmd FileType javascript,css,php set textwidth=79
"Enable autocompletion
autocmd FileType javascript set omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
autocmd FileType html set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType css set omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
"Enable line numbers
autocmd FileType javascript,css,php set number
"Enable incremental search
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set incsearch
And that’s it. Please feel free to post your suggestions!
