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A minimal vimrc for beginners
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| " A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with. | |
| " | |
| " Referenced here: http://www.benorenstein.com/blog/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty/ | |
| " Original Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | |
| " Made more minimal by: Ben Orenstein | |
| " Last change: 2012 Jan 20 | |
| " | |
| " To use it, copy it to | |
| " for Unix and OS/2: ~/.vimrc | |
| " for MS-DOS and Win32: $VIM\_vimrc | |
| " | |
| " If you don't understand a setting in here, just type ':h setting'. | |
| " Switch syntax highlighting on | |
| syntax on | |
| " Make backspace behave in a sane manner. | |
| set backspace=indent,eol,start | |
| " Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting. | |
| filetype plugin indent on |
Thanks for the explanation @ryanolsonx and no offence taken :) I'm just starting to learn vim and misunderstood the docs (didn't realise that defaults.vim is not loaded if .vimrc is found)!
For beginners, maybe split the last setting into its parts to be more explicit? Or not, no strong feelings here.
" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
@ryanolsonx Thanks for the elaboration. Just letting you know that your link is broken. I started to learn (or rather re-learn) Vim again and want to do it this time from scratch.
@vvznz Sorry! Here’s a new link for it: https://github.com/ryanolsonx/dotfiles/blob/dfebd1ffeb68f27fd0507c120348eb3694a058c7/.vimrc
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That's awesome. It's nice getting things more minimal! Just for fun, here's my current minimalist configuration that I use for serious, day-to-day frontend and backend development.