Hi everyone, it's summer finnaly and now i have all the time to completly set up my arch. i Allready formatted my windows drive (it felt soo good :P). I'm using Awesome WM btw. I use vim as my main text editor and for making school documens i use vim-latexsuite. I really need to change the colors. like \section{example} needs to be a differnt color than the normal text etc. i used gedit before and i used the cobalt preset which is really nice. When opening my rc.lua (config file for awesome) with gedit the letters are in different colors which is what i want. but when i'm making a text file in gedit i never get those colors. Can someone help me with this?
i know it's a bit hard to understand :)
What are the things you do after a fresh arch install? And which vim plugins do you use?
EDIT: colors are NOT fixed :(
Vim running in urxvt and i still don't have a good setup voor vim. i use latex and i want collors for htm c++ and latex. not sure if i want to run latexsuite or latexbox or something like that but I want a reallife pdf compiler if that's possible. i know how to use vim with text etc but don't know about plugins etc. And i don't have a vimrc in my .config folder, do i need to make one myself? and i can't find the file with the keybindings. i really don't like hjkl for navigation. i prefer to use jkil and h for insert. I need help :(. I need a colorscheme like cobalt from gedit.
with arch you can do everything yourself. I want to do that. I'm still a big newb with linux and don't know much about it but arch has the best wiki. Also, ubuntu based systems didn't work on my older pc's ( my test pc's). i used crunchbang which is great but after using arch with pacman and pacaur nothing can beat arch :).
After install, get as FOSS as I can, set it up with all the security and freeware and cloud based stuff I need, load steam get TF2 and some other good games in, and boom done!
I used to install stuff like metasploit but while I love hacking, never saw it as a career thing so I stopped playing with it.
If you haven't already you should check out a pacman wrapper called yaourt that does a lot of cool stuff like easily installing packages from the AUR and searching for packages. I recomend you get it from the archlinuxfr repo: https://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
Nope, is just a matter of preference. They do the same thing in slightly different ways.
Pacaur can be used as a substitute for pacman, or only for managing AUR packages (this is how I use it). From the yaourt page I gather that yaourt was intended to be a substitute for pacman that can also install packages from the AUR (I haven't used it).