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cassidoo/vim-up
A bunch of vim shortcuts, colors, and bundles to make your life easier
A personal vim configuration distribution, essentially a fork of Square's now-dead maximum-awesome repo. It wires up a standard set of plugins via Vundle and ships a massive collection of base16 colorschemes for both vim and iTerm2. The audience is Mac/Linux developers who want a pre-assembled vim setup without building their own from scratch.
The base16 colorscheme collection is genuinely useful — having both the vim and matching iTerm2 color files in one place means your terminal and editor actually match. The keyboard shortcut choices are sensible defaults (,t for file fuzzy search, ,a for project search with ag, Ctrl+hjkl for splits). The .local file escape hatch for customization is the right design — your personal changes survive upstream updates. Install and uninstall are handled by a single rake/make command rather than a wall of manual steps.
Vundle is effectively unmaintained and the ecosystem has moved to vim-plug or lazy.nvim; anyone adopting this will hit stale plugin management immediately. Last pushed in 2023 and the core plugins (ctrlp, ag.vim) have better-maintained alternatives (fzf.vim, ripgrep). No Neovim support at all — if you're not on classic vim, this is useless. The uninstall is partially manual with no cleanup for the color files or bundles directory, so 'uninstall' is more of a vimrc reset than an actual removal.