System Configuration

Module to consider installing:

• Archive:
  • unzip
• Net:
  • curl
  • rsync
  • libssh2-devel
  • libssh2_1
  • openssh
• Editors:
  • vim
• Devel:
  • ctags
  • cscope
  • gcc-core
  • gcc-g++
  • gcc4 (req. for compiling matplotlib)
  • git
  • mingw-gcc-core
  • mingw-gcc-g++
  • libgfortran3 (req. by numpy)
  • libjpeg8 (req. for PIL and maybe pillow)
  • liblapack0 (req. by numpy)
  • libquadmath0 (req. by numpy)
  • libncurses-devel
  • libncursesw-devel (not there for 64-bit version?)
  • make
  • mercurial
• Libs:
  • librsync-devel (for Duplicityi)
  • librsync1 (for Duplicity)
  • libuuid-devel (for cygwin64 pip. binutils also needed.)
  • libX11-devel (for PIL and Pillow)
• Math:
  • gnuplot
• Net:
  • httpie
• Python:
  • python
  • python3
  • python3-numpy
  • python3-pip
  • python3-requests
• Text:
  • jq
• Utils:
  • patch
• Web:
  • wget

Right-click on the Cygwin window, select Looks→Cursor→Block.

To install boto and Pillow (if PIL is a problem because of X11/Xlib.h)...

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
$ python3 get-pip.py
$ python3 -m pip install Pillow
$ python3 -m pip install boto

Use cygcheck to check dependencies.

Maybe get and run startxnosh.bat if you install the xinit module. Then running tools like xcalc from a PuTTY ssh connection with X11 forwarding checked will work. An alternative to that is Xming.

Ensure that vim supports the Python interpreter. (YouTube video.)

$ vim --version | grep +python

If it doesn't, then ensure you've got the required modules. (Mostly the same as listed above for PuTTY.) Then execute the following:

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vim/vim.git
$ cd vim/src
$ ./configure --enable-pythoninterp --with-features=huge --prefix=$HOME/opt/vim
$ make && make install
$ mkdir -p $HOME/bin
$ cd $HOME/bin
$ ln -s $HOME/opt/vim/bin/vim; ln -s $HOME/opt/vim/bin/vim vi
$ which vim
$ vim --version | grep +python

Note: If you choose to install the gvim binary onto a Microsoft Windows machine, the .vimrc file is named, _vimrc, and might reside in C:\Program Files\Vim. The colors, autoload and bundle directories reside within a vimfiles directory there.

Make the .vim_undo directory with one of the two following commands. The last one is for GVim on Windows, since Windows won't let you start a directory name with a dot. Run the command from cygwin.

$ mkdir $HOME/.vim_undo
$ mkdir `cygpath -u $USERPROFILE`/.vim_undo

Set the font by editing your .gvimrc (or _gvimrc) file like so: :e $MYGVIMRC

" set guifont=Consolas:h10
set guifont=Courier\ New:h10

Install or download your .vimrc file from the dotfiles git repo.

Use a color scheme you like, like desert, peaksea or tolerable.

$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/colors/desert.vim \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dblume/desert.vim/main/desert.vim
$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/colors/peaksea.vim \
  http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=15675
$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/colors/tolerable.vim \
  http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=3741

Manual steps to install some vim modules:

vim git-tab (or "gittab") installs handy context-sensitive Git commands in Vim that load the results in a new tab. The commands infer what you want from the current filename and whether there's a commit hash under the cursor.

taglist is indispensable. Check the link for further instructions regarding interaction with ctags if you don't already have it set up. (To do: See why Mir Nazim recommended tagbar instead. Also investigate Jedi.)

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle
$ curl http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=7701 > taglist_45.zip
$ unzip taglist_45.zip -d taglist
$ rm taglist_45.zip
$ cd ~/.vim/bundle/taglist/doc; vim -c ":helptags ."

Install :Bdelete from vim-bbye. vim-bbye installs an improved :Bclose script for deleting buffers without losing your window layout.

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle
$ curl -OL https://github.com/moll/vim-bbye/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
$ rm master.zip
$ mv vim-bbye-master/ bbye

If you want the ability to open files with a line number as given by grep -n, use file-line. And if you want to use * and # in visual mode, use visual-star-search.

$ mkdir ~/.vim/plugin
$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/plugin/file-line.vim \
  http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=17417
$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/plugin/visual-star-search.vim \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nelstrom/vim-visual-star-search/master/plugin/visual-star-search.vim

command-t was recommended by Steve Losh. But it requires vim to have been compiled with Ruby support.

$ vim --version | grep +ruby

Most filetypes should have correct syntax coloring, but just in case, you could add it yourself. For example, for yaml, you'd get yaml.vim. You'll need to create a new filetype in your .vimrc file, and add an entry to read your syntax file, too.

  autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.yaml set filetype=yaml
  autocmd! Syntax yaml source $VIM/yaml.vim

And install the syntax file...

$ curl -LSso ~/.vim/yaml.vim \
  http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=2249