Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

Good concept, this can become a marketplace to find and discover Vim plugins. You have moved one step ahead to easily install(but manage the same?)<p>Little feedback:<p>1. Add options to see what a developer just installed. I find it very interesting to see other's development environments, their workflows, history and .rc files.<p>2. Create a system where developers love to share their workflows, environments, history, vimrc, bashrc settings. Following and connecting with similar workflow developers would be cool.<p>Overall your first step is perfect!

Great concept!<p>I'd suggest offering Vundle[0] as an alternative to Pathogen, or even replacing it altogether. I've found it to be a better system managing bundles by config in your vimrc and running :BundleInstall/Update/Remove/etc instead of git cloning into a bundle dir.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/gmarik/vundle" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gmarik/vundle</a>

Nice! Maby a small video preview or gif would help new users to understand what each plugin actually does? Links to the plugin sites would be great too, as they usually have documentation on them.

On the plugins page, I'd suggest adding links to the plugins themselves (whether that be a github repository or some other page) for more information about them.

I notice that soft-tabs setting is a dropdown adjusting size. Does this not support a standard tab configuration?

Awesome tool. Seems super useful not only for new vim users.<p>Being a vim-pro, but using it for very specific tasks only, it always annoys the crap out of me, setting vim up with reasonable defaults on a new machine/OS.<p>One thing which I found missing from your nice selection of options is how vim handles the clipboard. Please let me choose (or include useful defaults if you have not done so already) how vim's internal clipboard interacts with the clipboard of the OS.

I was on Windows while I saw this ... and took a few googling to find out what goes where to get it working in gVim (which I hardly use).<p>- "autoload" and "bundles" from "vim" folder in the downloaded archive should go inside "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles"<p>- rename the _vimrc in in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim" as _vimrc.old<p>- copy the vimrc from the downloaded archive as _vimrc into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim"

I just randomly discovered this similar site: <a href="http://vimrc.info/generate" rel="nofollow">http://vimrc.info/generate</a>. It lets you choose to leave settings out of your file as well as turn them on or off, but it doesn’t include color schemes and plugins.

This is a nice effort. I'm probably in the tiny majority of people who have been using Vim for ~15 years but have never bothered with any customization or plugins (I'm also a philistine who uses the arrow keys for navigation).

Looks great! I just found a few plugins that I didn't know about yet.<p>Suggestion for future enhancement: You should add a script that we can run on the download page that downloads and installs the new configuration to our local machine. This would be especially helpful for installing on a remote machine, or even on a local machine. Something like:<p>wget <a href="http://url.com/newconfigurl.zip" rel="nofollow">http://url.com/newconfigurl.zip</a><p>unzip newconfigurl.zip<p>//Move files

I know this makes me some sort of monster but I'm disappointed in the lack of ability to have noexpandtab. Otherwise though, good tool, looks great.

I'm so happy you've done this; just a few weeks ago I was helping a friend who had just bought a new MBP set up their environment and I googled for this site but found nothing great, I was considering doing it myself. Great job!

This is cool. While VIM is not my main text editor I use it quite often and this is just the amount of configuration I needed. Thanks!

Finally I can disable syntax highlighting in vim!

People are still putting up Google+ buttons?

Awesome tool man :D It's really convenience for new user to learn and use vim like pro :)<p>Great contribution to VIM community.

I thought about purchasing vimrc.it for nearly this exact purpose this morning. This is fantastic.

Now I just need something like this for Emacs :P Although I like Vim too, so I'll try it.