script with the things I do to make vim the way I like it

configure-vim.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

    if [ ! -d ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree ]; then
        git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree
    fi 

    if [[ "${OSTYPE:0:4}" == "cygw" ]]
    then
        find ~/.vim -name *.vim -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix
    fi

    touch proper.vimrc

    echo "filetype plugin indent on" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "syntax on" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set hlsearch" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.ejs set filetype=html" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.twig set filetype=html" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set tabstop=4" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set softtabstop=4" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set shiftwidth=4" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set expandtab" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set autoindent" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set smarttab" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set splitright" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set foldmethod=indent" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set foldnestmax=10" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set nofoldenable" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set foldlevel=1" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "set clipboard=unnamed" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "vnoremap <C-r> \"hy:%s/<C-r>h//gc<left><left><left>" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "call pathogen#infect()" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "map <F2> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "map <F3> :noh<CR>" >> proper.vimrc
    echo "map <C-N><C-N> :set invnumber<CR>" >> proper.vimrc

    mv -i proper.vimrc  ~/.vimrc
    rm -f proper.vimrc
else
    path="${0}"
    host="${1}"
    file_name=`basename $0`
    echo "Uploading ${path} to ${host}.."
    scp ${path} ${host}:.
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
        echo "Running ~/.${file_name} on ${host}.."
        ssh ${host} "./${file_name}"
        echo "Cleaning up ~/.${file_name} on ${host}.."
        ssh ${host} "rm -f ./${file_name}"
    fi
fi

Last revision: Will attempt to scp and run the script on a host if given a host argument.

Your public key should be in the host's authorized_keys

For example, with this in ~/.ssh/config

Host homestead
    HostName 127.0.0.1
    User vagrant
    Port 2222

$ ./configure-vim.sh homestead

This has become much less relevant since I started using a dotfiles repo (not to mention LazyVim, which has it's own repo), but it still might be useful for configuring vim on a server.