Once in a while there is the need for vim on machines which are usually under control of someone else. In such cases it is handy to have the most important lines for vimrc right at the hand:
set laststatus=2 " grey status bar at the bottom syn on " syntax highlighting filetype indent on " activates indenting for files set ai " auto indenting set nu " line numbers set ic " case insensitive search colorscheme desert " colorscheme desert
Once again, the idea of these short lines is to have the basic functionality in vim – if there is the time to set up a properly vimrc with tens of lines, I could also copy mine over. But if you just need to do some quick things these lines are useful.
If anyone has other really helpful lines please leave a comment (and explain the lines with a few words, just as above) – but in case such “helpful” lines take more than one line it s already too much. For postinbg source code in the comment section, please read How do I post source code?.
July 21, 2008 at 16:58
:set scs “smartcase: Ignore case only if search string has no Uppercase chars.
:set bg=dark “works well with white-on-black scheme
July 21, 2008 at 17:15
July 21, 2008 at 20:53
set smartindent
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
:set guifont=monospace\ 10
July 22, 2008 at 9:25
Last [sourcecode] tag should be changed to [slash sourcecode].
Thanx for the info dude.
July 22, 2008 at 11:59
Of course, thanks.
And also thanks for the other comments, I especially like the smartcase and incsearch settings.
July 23, 2008 at 11:27
nvi supports incsearch as well, so in case you ever need to edit a file on a machine without vim (god forbid), you can put the following in your .exrc:
August 5, 2008 at 9:42
Guys, you could have told me that the title was originally “Short ti*m*p”!