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Here is my current vimrc. Some highlights of what all these settings do:

Turn on some nifty colors, for syntax highlighting and on the status bar

Don't use real tabs, instead, use 4 spaces whenever you hit the tab key

Handles indentation of curlies

Uses upper ascii characters to represent real tabs, as well as showing you when there are spaces at the end of your lines

If you're typing out comments, and the text gets to the end of the line, make it wrap, and make sure it adds a comment for you at the beginning of the next line

Turn off all the noisy beeping, so the terminal won't beep every time you press the cursor in the wrong direction, or make some other simple mistake
And my all-time favorite:

Tab completion of variable names! If you hit tab with no characters before your curser, you get a normal 4 space tab. If there are characters before you cursor, it performs completion on them, allowing you to scroll forward through the options with tab, or backwards through the options with shift-tab.

" Eric Andreychek's .vimrc

set nocompatible
" turn these ON:
set digraph esckeys hidden ruler showcmd wildmenu smartindent expandta
+b
set visualbell showmatch title

" turn these OFF:
set noerrorbells nostartofline nohlsearch

" non-toggles:
set backspace=2 formatoptions=cqrt laststatus=2 shortmess=at textwidth
+=79
set whichwrap=<,>,h,l shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
set comments=b:#,:%,fb:-,n:>,n:)
set list listchars=tab:ùð,trail:Ü
set viminfo=%,'50,\"100,:100,n~/.viminfo

" mappings:
map Q gq
map K     <NUL>
map <C-Z> :shell<CR>
map ,v :e ~/.vimrc<CR>
map ,F :view    $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim
map ,SO :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/
map ,V  :view   $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/
map <C-A> <Home>
map <C-E> <End>

" syntax coloring!! :-)
syntax on
 
" some colors:  "white on black"
hi comment ctermfg=darkgreen  ctermbg=black guifg=darkgreen  guibg=bla
+ck

" Make the status bar blue
set t_mr=^[[0;1;37;44m

" The bottom line is bold-white
set t_me=^[[m

" Shhhhh!
set t_vb=

" Mmmmm... tab completetion
function! InsertTabWrapper(direction)
    let col = col('.') - 1
    if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
        return "\<tab>"
    elseif "backward" == a:direction
        return "\<c-p>"
    else
        return "\<c-n>"
    endif
endfunction

inoremap <S-tab> <c-r>=InsertTabWrapper ("backward")<cr>
inoremap <tab> <c-r>=InsertTabWrapper ("forward")<cr>
[download]

There are some control/escape characters in this vimrc file. If you really want to use the whole thing, don't try to copy and paste this, just snag it from my website: Eric's vimrc.

Have fun,
-Eric

Update: Oh yeah, and vim rules :-)

--
Lucy: "What happens if you practice the piano for 20 years and then end up not being rich and famous?"
Schroeder: "The joy is in the playing."

In reply to Re: Vim configs (slightly OT) by andreychek
in thread Vim configs (slightly OT) by djw

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