Ask HN: What is in your vimrc?

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by vijaydev • 17 years ago

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I keep a very simple vimrc file with minimal customization. Note however that I'm a beginner with Vim, so my customizations end with what "just works" with minimum pain for me.

  set nobackup
  set clipboard=unnamed
  set number
  set tabstop=4
  set shiftwidth=4
  set expandtab
  colorscheme oceandeep

vesp• 17 years ago

Same for me, minimal config here:

  set tabstop=4
  set expandtab
  set list
  set listchars=tab:>.
  hi Comment ctermfg=darkgray
  syntax enable

I have the tabs replaced to ">." since I moved from tabs to 4-spaces in all my code. That way I can do a :retab in those old files which still have tabs in them.

ps: Glad to see I'm not the only Vim geek around here! ;)

thristian• 17 years ago

I've been using Vim for over ten years now, across several jobs and platforms and tasks, so my .vimrc and .gvimrc have gathered quite a bit of cruft. I keep them in a git repository along with my various other generically useful config files, and just check them out on each new machine I get an account on.

There's too much stuff in these files to describe what everything does, but there's a lot of comments, so along with the Vim online help you should be able to figure everything out:

.vimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270714/

.gvimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270716/

Highlights include a single key-binding for stepping through every buffer in every tab, consistent mouse-handling between console-vim and gvim, and code to automatically make gvim inherit the GNOME default monospace font.

elmindreda• 17 years ago

Mine are entirely without comments, but on the off chance that they'll be useful:

.vimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270777/ .gvimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270778/

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