1 year old Vim user here, too. If you don't mind my curiosity, at line 167/8, you have " make filename and status always visible set modeline but tha

1 year old Vim user here, too. If you don't mind my curiosity, at line 167/8, you have " make filename and status always visible set modeline but that's unrelated to the statusline, modelines are special comments containing file-specific settings you put at the top of a file. This line just activates support for the feature. i don't think there is such a thing as a pathetic .vimrc. Some people have 2 000 lines of custom mappings in their .vimrc, others have 10 lines. That's Vim.