Custom VIM Settings In A Multi-user Environment

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August 04, 2010

Custom VIM Settings In A Multi-user Environment

By Michael Marr

Vim is handy text editor, which improves upon the included editor in Unix, vi. With so many plugins and scripts available for VIM, many developers consider this application their number one source for editing and developing code. With all the available customization, vim can be finely tuned to exactly what you need. The ability to finely tune, however, can become a problem when you are sharing a vim instance with other developers.

Say, for instance, you have a dev account on a web server, for which you share the account with all the other developers in your organization. This account has all the necessary credentials to get your developing done. So you SSH into a web server and use vim to develop on the remote server. Simply changing the settings files on the machine and/or for the user dev to match your local vim configuration won't do the trick, as it will force your co-workers into using your settings. If they don't like your choices, you'll find them quickly changing things back, and create a tug-of-war scenario over the settings and tweaks in vim.

So how can resolve this situation? Using the -s option in vim and an alias, we can have our vim and customize it too!

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