Sneak Peak: Our vimrc

This is series of articles explaining our development Environment. This time we will be discussing about vimrc which is a configuration file that we can use to manage our Vim settings.

You can find the file here.

Basic Vim Settings

• set number It enables line number in vim
• set relativenumber Enables relative numbers in vim. Means Vim will adjust line numbers based on your current cursor position.
• set linebreak Break lines at word if you have enabled wraplines.
• set showbreak=+++ Identify breaked lines with +++
• set textwidth=100 Line wrap (number of cols)
• set showmatch Highlight matching brace
• set hlsearch Highlight all search results
• set smartcase Enable smart-case search
• set ignorecase Always case-insensitive
• set incsearch Searches for strings incrementally
• set autoindent Auto-indent new lines
• set smartindent Enable smart-indent
• set smarttab Enable smart-tabs
• set softtabstop=4 Number of spaces per Tab
• autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.md setlocal spell Enables spell check for markdown files, ending with extension md
• set complete+=kspell Enables spelling auto complete.

Advanced Settings

• set ruler ” Show row and column ruler information
• set showtabline=0 ” Show tab bar
• set undolevels=200 ” Number of undo levels
• set backspace=indent,eol,start ” Backspace behaviours
• filetype plugin on Enables filetype detection along with plugins.
• set tabstop=2 Set tabstop to tell vim 2 columns a tab counts for
• set shiftwidth=2 Set number of space characters inserted for indentation
• set shiftround Round indent to multiple of ‘shiftwidth’.
• set expandtab spaces to insert a Tab
• set clipboard=unnamed Use the system clipboard
• set regexpengine=1 Enables regular expression engine
• set autoread Watch for file changes outside vim
• set acd Changes the working directory on each load autochdir
• let mapleader = "\<Space>" Map leader to Space bar
• nnoremap <leader><leader> <C-^> Switch buffers

Remember

You can view the help text for any commands by running :help COMMAND eg; :help regexpengine

This article originally appeared on lightrains.com