Vim .vimrc configuration
Vim .vimrc configuration
The default Vim configuration can feel insufficient
Vim has a rather bare bones default configuration, which it does not feel that convenient when editing texts through a shell terminal. This appendix offers you an example of a Vim configuration that enables some quality-of-life features that may improve your text-editing experience.
Practical Vim configuration
A very practical .vimrc configuration for Vim is the following:
" Configuration for tabs, always 4 spaces (like in the Python standard)
filetype plugin indent on
" show existing tab with 4 spaces width
set tabstop=4
" when indenting with '>', use 4 spaces width
set shiftwidth=4
" On pressing tab, insert 4 spaces
set expandtab
" Show line numbers
set nu
" Disable autocomment of next line (bothersome when pasting texts with comments)
autocmd FileType * set formatoptions-=croJust create a .vimrc file, with the lines above, in any user’s $HOME folder. Then copy the all lines above in the .vimrc file. Of course, do not hesitate to adjust these parameters to your personal preferences (in particular the indentation and tabs configuration).