I want IDE-like look when I start vim.
3 columns. Leftmost, at 15% width, file & symbol browser, then 60% width of main editor space and 25% showing debug points and run logs on right most part.
When I start vim, I can do all this using verticalsplit, NerdTree, ctags, etc. etc. but the process is repetitive.
How can I automate these steps so when I start vim I can just get to work?
Once you have vim how you like it, it's possible to save the session (so any
files you have open, the arrangement of splits you have etc.). See :help mksession
Basically, you can just do:
:mksession!
and vim will write a file into the currentent directory. As I've written it
above, I provided no file name and therefore vim will default to naming the
file Session.vim
Also, the ! will overwrite any previous files of the same name. This means
you can choose to have multilple session stats saved if you wish.
To load the vim sesssion again, you can either do:
$ vim -S Session.vim
(on launching vim) or you can do it after launching vim with:
:source Session.vim
on vim's command line.
-cto execute commands at startup, how to use autocommands and how to use vim's session feature. Your question is most probably a duplicate of one we already have on this site.