http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/

modules used in this configuration

• Note: neocomplete has been deprecated in vim 8+. I have switched this out for deoplete.

• Note: the following commands maybe destructive to your existing vim setup make sure you move your ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc out of the way eg:

  mv ~/.vim ~/.vim_bak
  mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc_bak

Once done then :

mkdir ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim

git clone git@github.com/cajone/dotvim.git . 

( Use this if you have ssh keys in place : Note the trailing dot is important but will only work if .vim is empty )

or

git clone https://github.com/cajone/dotvim.git . 

( Note the trailing dot is important but will only work if .vim is empty )

mkdir undodir  # this gives you persistent undo capabilities across sessions

If on a linux system run the next line:

  ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

if on a windows system move the .vim/vimrc file to ~/.vimrc

Once this is done we need to download all the bundles defined as git submodules:

cd ~/.vim
git submodule update --init

END OF SETUP INSTRUCTIONS

mkdir view  # You only need this if you intend to use vims folding capability

To update this repo on your system after the original init load do the following :

cd ~/.vim
git pull
git submodule foreach git pull origin master

last but not least start vim and run :Helptags to load all the help files for the submodules

This vimrc file uses '\' as its leader key, if you wish to change this to something else change this line in the vimrc

    let mapleader='\'

To use this vimrc configuration with nvim :

start nvim

:help nvim-from-vim

but basically for unix installs do the following ( cribbed from docs https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim.html#nvim-from-vim )

start nvim

1. To start the transition, create your |init.vim| (user config) file:

    :call mkdir(stdpath('config'), 'p')
    :exe 'edit '.stdpath('config').'/init.vim'

2. Add these contents to the file:

    set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
    let &packpath = &runtimepath
    source ~/.vimrc