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> I load main vim instance with a fair amount of specialization (but probably less than most) Perhaps it's just that the people who diligently curate their .vi

> I load main vim instance with a fair amount of specialization (but probably less than most) Perhaps it's just that the people who diligently curate their .vimrcs are more prone to talk about it than people who use stock or minimally configured vim. I can tell you my .vimrc right now without looking at it. se sm se hls se number se ts=4 se sw=4 se expandtab It's not very exciting. Nobody ever writes a blogpost on the virtues of a vimrc that looks like this one.

lwf 8y ago
The minimalism reminds me of http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/tips/elkner/vim4python.php http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/tips/elkner/vim4python.p... , which was written by my CS teacher from high school, and has survived me ~10 years.
kbenson 8y ago
Ha, I see that your .vimrc is almost identical to mine in functionality, even if mine is riddled with mostly superfluous additions and lots of comments. What you've got there though is probably what I would consider the core things I would need to set in vim to get my desired experience on a new workstation if I didn't have my own .vimrc to download, all the way down to the number of spaces for expanded tabs. The rest of the stuff I have boils down to history size, a fixup for backspace in insert, default paste mode and quick key to toggle it, how far from margins to start scrolling, and turning off swap files so editing very large files is easier. Oh, and the Pathogen init stuff, for which I have usually have no modules installed (but I test out stuff occasionally), but there it sits.
dotancohen 8y ago
I've got a decade-and-a-half .vimrc that I stopped using last year. I used to rsync it up to other machines before I would SSH into them. Now that I've gotten out of it, I see that there are only a few small customizations that I really enjoy, but none that I need. And I can now use VIM on any machine.
cliff_badger 8y ago
Just to make it more efficient :) "instead of se number se nu

lwf 8y ago

The minimalism reminds me of http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/tips/elkner/vim4python.php http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/tips/elkner/vim4python.p... , which was written by my CS teacher from high school, and has survived me ~10 years.

kbenson 8y ago

Ha, I see that your .vimrc is almost identical to mine in functionality, even if mine is riddled with mostly superfluous additions and lots of comments. What you've got there though is probably what I would consider the core things I would need to set in vim to get my desired experience on a new workstation if I didn't have my own .vimrc to download, all the way down to the number of spaces for expanded tabs. The rest of the stuff I have boils down to history size, a fixup for backspace in insert, default paste mode and quick key to toggle it, how far from margins to start scrolling, and turning off swap files so editing very large files is easier. Oh, and the Pathogen init stuff, for which I have usually have no modules installed (but I test out stuff occasionally), but there it sits.

dotancohen 8y ago

I've got a decade-and-a-half .vimrc that I stopped using last year. I used to rsync it up to other machines before I would SSH into them. Now that I've gotten out of it, I see that there are only a few small customizations that I really enjoy, but none that I need. And I can now use VIM on any machine.

cliff_badger 8y ago

Just to make it more efficient :) "instead of se number se nu