I downloaded this vim config but decided later I wanted to work using vanilla vim (because i'm still not used to it).
So I followed the instructions at the bottom of the README:
How to uninstall
Just do following:
- Remove ~/.vim_runtime
- Remove any lines that reference .vim_runtime in your ~/.vimrc
I deleted the hidden vim_runtime directory located in :home/user/ on Ubuntu 16.04, using
rm -rf ~/.vim_runtime/
then realized this was a mistake. I now can't open vim without getting:
Error detected while processing /home/user/.vimrc:
line 3:
E484: Cannot open file /home/user/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/basic.vim
line 4:
E484: Cannot open file /home/user/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/filetypes.vim
line 5:
E484: Cannot open file /home/user/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/plugins_config.vim
line 6:
E484: Cannot open file /home/user/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/extended.vim
Press ENTER or type command to continue
I don't know what to do from here, It would be great if I could just purge it all and have vim as it was when you first install the OS, I've tried:
sudo apt-get purge vim && sudo apt-get install vim
but still get the same error detection when opening vim after the command has completed.
If you had no personal configuration other than that Vim distribution, just rm /home/user/.vimrc and start anew. You can also remove /home/user/.vim/ if it exists. That gives you a clean slate. There's no need to reinstall Vim; that distribution presumably was just user configuration (i.e. you didn't need sudo to install it), whereas Vim is installed system-wide (via apt). If there's something inside .vimrc that you want to save (and you have no other editor installed), you can launch Vim with vim -N -u NONE.
Vim "distributions" like spf-13 and Janus lure you with a quick install and out-of-the-box settings, but you pay the price with increased complexity (you need to understand both Vim's runtime loading scheme and the arbitrary conventions of the distribution) and inflexibility (the distribution may make some things easier, but other things very difficult). Vim is incredibly customizable, using someone else's customization makes no sense.
I would base your personal configuration on the example that ships with Vim. You can install it like this:
$ vim
:edit $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example
:saveas $MYVIMRC
:quit
Also see :help defaults.vim.