First you’ll need a version of VIM with ruby support, simplest is the one distributed in HomeBrew,

brew install macvim

Then you’ll need to install a few dependencies:

gem install hpricot erubis ruby_parser

Note, if you’re using RVM, install these into your global gemset:

rvm gemset use global
gem install hpricot erubis ruby_parser

Great,

Now open vim & open a file you want converted to haml then use this command:

:!html2haml %

Blam, you’ll now see a HAML version of your file

Introduction

Download here ~ https://github.com/johnantoni/vimfiles

What you see is my own personal VIM configuration, with all manner of plugins, color formats and cool status messages.

Feel free to fork and copy it as you want, you can even drop me a line to suggest improvements.

Best,

Install Config

git clone [url] ~/.vim
ln -nfs ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -nfs ~/.vim/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Install Command-T

cd ~/.vim/ruby/command-t
ruby extconf.rb
make

Afterwhich you’ll be able to use Command-T (aka Textmate Goto File) with \t

Build VIM from Source

Either download from vim.org and install with Mercurial or download from my github vim mirror with:

git clone git://github.com/johnantoni/vim.git
cd vim/src

Now if you’re in linux i’d recommend install vim with ruby support via

./configure --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp

But if your on OSX i’d recommend installing MacVIM as it’s got ruby support baked in (plus it’s a major pain to compile vim with ruby support in osx)

./configure --with-features=huge

Whatever you decide, compile and install with

make
sudo make install

If however you want to re-configure later, run this to clean the SRC directory before re-building:

make distclean

MacVim, HomeBrew and PeepOpen

For OSX users i’d recommend installing MacVIM rather than using the Terminal client. Along with that install HomeBrew, it’s a really efficient package manager for OSX.

And if you want the GoTo file that TextMate has (and CommandT provides) install PeepOpen from PeepCode, really awesome (and support already baked into this config)

Keys

\    leader key
i    switch to insert mode
esc  switch out of insert mode

With the CommandT plugin installed you can do a TextMate go-to file with \t After which you can start typing the file your after and it’ll zero in on it

Global .gitignore

Included with this git repository is a pretty decent .gitignore file which works quite well as the basis of your global ignore file.

To install the packaged .gitignore file to your global git config, do:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.vim/.gitignore

NERDTree

Open with :NERDTree Create new file pressing ‘a’ Switch windows with CTRL+ww

Rebuild Help Docs

:helptags ~/.vim/doc