Laziest VIM

What is Laziest VIM?

Laziest VIM provides an IDEalized Vim configuration that can be applied in 30 seconds. It is lazier than LazyVim and maximizes compatibility by requiring only standard VIM plugins. Laziest VIM is ideal for people that edit technical files across many remote computers and need to combine efficient file browsing with the power of VIM, without spending time configuring it. It extends Vim in a confortable way while respecting pre-existing muscle memory.

Features

The Laziest VIM configuration includes:

• Easy terminal toggling
• File tree smart behavior
• Git integration via tig
• Shift-scroll terminal compatibility
• Modern Tokyo Night theme
• Highlight of trailing spaces
• Preconfigured comment/uncomment shortcuts
• Recursive grep via Control+f
• Seamless integration on local and SSH environments

Screenshot

Get started

Don't worry! Your existing .vimrc is automatically backed up during the installation.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Space - expands a directory, updating CWD / opens a file moving the focus
• Enter - opens a file keeping the focus on the file tree
• Alt + Right - navigates into the selected directory
• Alt + Up - navigates to the parent directory
• Control + t - opens tig for the current file
• Control + b - opens tig blame for the current file
• Control + y - opens tig for the directory of the current file
• Control + f - greps recursively for a certain word, add -i to make the search case insensitive
• Control + g - syncs the file tree with vim's CWD (in case you changed if with :cd or Space)
• Control + arrow - switches to the window in the corresponding direction
• Control + w w or Shift + Tab - cycles across the windows clockwise
• F2 - maximizes the terminal window vertically
• F3 - toggles the file tree
• F4 - opens a terminal in the directory of the current file
• F6 - toggles the line numbers
• m - opens contextual menu for a file or directory in the file tree
• r - refreshes the contents of the selected directory in the file tree
• q - closes results window opened by a plugin (file tree, tig, search)
• \c - comments a block of code if selected in visual mode using #
• \u - uncomments a block of code commented with # if selected in visual mode
• :cd - changes the current directory and refreshes the file tree
• :q - quits
• :wq - saves all files and quits

Details

Blog post: An IDEalization of Vim
Repository: github.com/ghomem/laziest-vim

FAQ

1. Why is the terminal in scrolling mode?
Shift+PageUp/PageDown sets the terminal to scrolling mode so that history can be reviewed (regular Vim search functions are available). If you finished reviewing terminal history you can get back to entering commands by pressing "i".

2. How do you update this website?
With Laziest VIM over SSH, of course.

Acknowledgements

This project is a small convenience layer created to scratch an itch. All real merit goes to the authors and maintainers of Vim, tig, and the plugins powering this setup: nerdtree, tokyonight-vim, lightline.vim, vim-fugitive, vim-puppet, tig-explorer.vim, and vim-grepper.