VIM pretty theme and CTAGS setup in Raspberry PI

In Linux terminal, VIM is a widely used editor, come in default, support a lot of features, long history (stable). Since I am  using it everyday, so I was thinking to make the editor nice to view.

First is finding a suitable themes, after trying a few, I found this:

My favorite:

https://github.com/tomasiser/vim-code-dark

Steps:

1. Create directory. If you cannot see the folder ".vim/colors", create using "mkdir -p .vim/colors"

pi@raspberrypi:~/.vim/colors $ ls

atom-dark-256.vim  atom-dark.vim  codedark.vim  dracula.vim - should be empty for your case

2. Download the theme from https://github.com/tomasiser/vim-code-dark.git

3. Find and copy "codedark.vim" to .vim/colors

4. Create if not found. "vi ~/.vimrc". Add below details, then save it.

"set background=dark

set number

set t_Co=256

set t_ut=

colorscheme codedark

syntax on

5. done. You can have pretty source code viewer now.

Ok, now I have pretty view. I want to have simple source code navigator in VIM. So, I decided to install & setup CTAGS.

Steps:

1. sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags

2. cd ~/.vim/

3. wget https://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=19574 -O taglist_46.zip

4. unzip taglist_46.zip

5. vim ~/.vimrc

Add following line:

filetype plugin on

nnoremap <F12> :TlistToggle

6. Done. You have pretty vim with simple source code navigator.

Now, my final .vimrc file look like following:

more information can be found at https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273