Easy way to get started with Vim as your IDE

You want to use Vim as your IDE, but don’t know how to get started? You may want to give up, how sad :( But with Vim Boostrap you can get your perfect Vim IDE within a minute.

With just a few simple steps, you’ve done half of the way.

Step 1: Select your languages

Step 2: Select your theme

Step 3: Click the “Generate” button to download the generate.vim file, and run this command to use it as your vimrc file

mv ~/Downloads/generate.vim ~/.vimrc

For basic/useful commands from your vimrc file, you can check it here: https://github.com/editor-bootstrap/vim-bootstrap#commands

For using Vim, check out this great tutorial: https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/

I hope you can go further and discover more useful features from Vim.

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