Mastering Vim

Installation

First, make sure that you have cmake and llvm installed, since YouCompleteMe needs to be compiled:

$ sudo apt-get install cmake llvm

For Windows, you can get cmake from https://cmake.org/download and llvm from https://releases.llvm.org/download.html. YouCompleteMe requires Vim to be compiled with +python. You can check whether your Vim was compiled with Python support by running vim --version | grep python. If you see -python, you'll have to recompile your Vim with Python support.

If you're using vim-plug, add the following to .vimrc:

let g:plug_timeout = 300  " Increase vim-plug timeout for YouCompleteMe.Plug 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': './install.py' }

Save the file and execute it:

:source $MYVIMRC | PlugInstall ...