VIM is the perfect IDE (at least for me)
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* 'set nocompatible' is useless.
* 'syntax on' also does 'filetype on'. Why enable something if you are going to disable it a few lines below? You should move that line to your "Theme and Styling" section.
* Why is 'set nowrap' not in the "Configuration Section"?
* 'set encoding=utf-8' is generally useless on Mac OS X. Your whole config is broken if you need it.
* 'set backspace=indent,eol,start' is not an "OSX stupid backspace fix"; it's needed everywhere. And… why is this setting not in the "Configuration Section"?
* 'set ruler' is overridden by your "fancyline" plugin so it's useless.
* 'set t_Co=256' is useless, Vim can determine that on its own.
* 'set background=dark' is also useless; your colorscheme already does that.
* Your whole "Enable omni completion." section is useless; Vim already does all of that.
* 'get(g:, 'elite_mode')' will always return '1' so you should simply keep your four mappings and scrap all that unnecessary configuration.
* 'mapleader' and 'maplocalleader' are not set anywhere, not sure what's the point of a '<localeader>' mapping.
* Your PHP and Elixir autocommands should be in dedicated groups or, ideally, in proper ftplugins.
About your writeup…
* Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think?
* Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids.
* Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'?
* Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.
> Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think?
Chalk this one to personal preference but I really like NerdTree and find it easier to use.
> Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids.
I was making reference to Omnicomplete
> Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'?
Syntastic, again comes down to usability I love having the inline display of errors, have the syntax checks on file save and have the ability on languages like elixir to run 3 different tools automatically.
> Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.
Fair enough, but it doesn't make for a great title doesn't it ;P
It has never clicked for me