FYI, Vim 8 ships a defaults.vim that set up some nice defaults for new users, and an empty .vimrc file disables processing of these files. A 'null' .vimrc looks

FYI, Vim 8 ships a defaults.vim that set up some nice defaults for new users, and an empty .vimrc file disables processing of these files. A 'null' .vimrc looks something more like: unlet! skip_defaults_vim source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim See ':help defaults' for more info.