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Exercise 2 - Say hello to VIM and its plugins

1. Install the Thesaurus_query Plugin on VIM

Many difficulties flushed when I tried to install this plguin. Now I will communicate briefly how I managed to intall it and provide possible solutions to the difficulties.

Ensure the Python Support

This plugin requires the support of Python. To check if your python support such funcitons, you can do as this [blog](
http://www.tuicool.com/articles/jYvMFv) and this [answer on Stack Overflow}(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20160902/how-to-solve-requires-python-2-x-support-in-linux-vim-and-it-have-python-2-6-6) say.

If your Linux does not wupport python, you can...

• Reinstall Python with the parameter --enable-pythoninterp=yes

• Try what this website teaches you to do.

In the guidelines above they mentioned the configure of Linux, for more information, you can check this site and this site

• I tried this two guidelines above but is did not work. The final solution was that I tried the Fedora forum's solution here with only a one-line code

sudo yum install python-lib

Install Pathogen

Pathogen is a popular plugin manager famous for the simplicity in Windows environment, which was my first choice to manege the thesaurus_query plugin.

First download the code from this website. You can also clone it from its Github site, but I do not recommend for the often failure due to the GFW bad Internet connection.

Allocate the code in the last step into the path
~/.vim/autoload. Make the folder if there isn't such one.

For those who know nothing about ~/.vimrc, create this file under the folder under your home folder.

~/.vimrc is a file defining some default settings of Vim. Using this you can cutomize your vim and make it more convenient. More knowledge about ~/.vimrc can be found on this site.

Edit this file with Vim and write down this

execute pathogen#infect()

syntax on

filetype plugin indent on

If ~/.vimrc is not empty, just add one line

execute pathogen#infect()

Pathogen is ready.

• Install Vundle

Vundle is another famous plugin manage. The phenomenonal plugin YouCompleteMe is managed by this manager. I installed this mainly because when I used Pathogen and installed thesaurus_query, there is no change on my VIM and I thought Pathogen did not work. However, nothing happened after installing the thesaurus_query plug in with Vundle, either.

First to install the Vundle you can clone it from the Github using the following code in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

And in ~/.vimrc add the following

set nocompatible " be iMproved, required

filetype off " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

call vundle#begin()

" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line

call vundle#end() " required

filetype plugin indent on " required

" To ignore plugin indent changes, instead use:

" filetype plugin on

The details for installing is here.

Install Thesaurus_query Plugin

If you installed Pathegen, then

git clone https://github.com/ron89/thesaurus_query.vim ~/.vim/bundle/thesaurus_query.vim

and it should be over.

Install the Plugin

If you installed Vundle, besides the step above, add this into your ~/.vimrc between call vundle#begin() and call vundle#end()

Bundle 'ron89/thesaurus_query.vim '

And run VIM in the terminal, in the general mode, input :PlugInstall

And everything should be ready.

Here is a screen shot showing I have installed the plugin with the plugin manager Vundle.

2. Rewrite the README.md with VIM

Here is a link to a simple guideline of VIM.

Here is a screen shot showing the editing window of VIM on Fedora.

Here is the link to the README.md file.