The first decision was to not use Janus. I enjoyed my time with it, but I wanted to have full control over Vim and have a reason for each new piece of functionality. I went through the .vimrc and .gvimrc files and the list of plugins and took only the ones I used for day-to-day development. If I have a pain point and want more functionality, I'll find a solution organically, but I didn't want to have a kitchen sink setup where I didn't know if the functionality is Vim's or Janus'.
Don't feel that this means I dislike Janus, as I think it's a great environment, especially for those new to Vim, but it's time to move on.
I then installed pathogen for easy plugin management. I used submodules to install all the plugins I wanted so I'm able to easily update them through git. The two non-trivial installations were Command-T and javaScriptLint. I included instructions in the README for getting those installed. For the latter plugin, it's a nice thing to add the following line to your .vimrc file to get rid of the rather strong highlighting color:
let g:jslint_highlight_color=""To get the .vimrc and .gvimrc files in the same folder, I renamed them without the dots and created symlinks with the original names in the root directory that pointed to them. Now everything was under version control and can go on whatever machine I want.
You can find my setup on github. Feel free to take what you like.
