Mark Steve sent in rstacruz/vim-opinion, a plugin that captures commonly used .vimrc settings so you can easily install and use it with Vundle or Pathogen. It's designed to be used with Tim Pope's sensible.vim.
.vimrc
Most people end up with huge .vimrc files and lots of configuration options. That can make using a standard installation of Vim tricky. So just how much vanilla Vim do you remember?
First, start Vim like this:
vim -u NONE
I was reading Zen room for Vim: Focusing only on the essential, a post about a fork of VimRoom. There’s been a glut of these distraction-free-writing plugins recently, but I like looking at their source because they all struggle to solve one simple problem: how to…
If you type :set history, you'll see the number of : entires that will be stored. The default is 20, which is what my Vim is set to. However, you can easily set it to anything: I've seen vimrc files on GitHub with it set to 10000.
:set history
:
20
10000
I’ve been writing a whole lot of XML lately. Doesn’t sound like fun, does it? Well, it’s not all that bad, because I’m well-versed in working with XML in Vim.
One oddity you’ll run into when editing XML is spell checking won’t work as expected. This is partly…
I like the idea that programmers should be eclectic:
eclectic [iˈklektik]: adjective deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources: her musical tastes are eclectic.
sensible.vim (License: Vim) by Tim Pope is a selection of default settings:
Think of sensible.vim as one step above 'nocompatible' mode: a universal set of defaults that (hopefully) everyone can agree on.
'nocompatible'
