This is my Vim configuration a.k.a .vimrc. You can download the file from here. Feel free to use and customize.
Below are some description of its contents:
Use vim settings instead of vi
set nocompatible
No backup or swap
set nobackup nowritebackup noswapfile autoread
Enable per-directory .vimrc files
set exrc
Don’t unload buffer when switching away
set hidden
Allow per-file settings via modeline
set modeline
Disable unsafe commands in local .vimrc files
set secure
Saving and encoding
set encoding=utf-8 fileencoding=utf-8 termencoding=utf-8
Command completion
set wildmenu
Allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start
Display status line which contains current mode, file name, file status, ruler, etc.
set laststatus=2
Always set autoindenting on
set autoindent
Display incomplete commands
set showcmd
Keep upto 50 lines of command line history
set history=50
Show a vertical line at the 79th character
set textwidth=80
Highlight column after ‘textwidth’
set colorcolumn=+1
Switch syntax highlighting on
syntax on
Switch highlighting on the last used search pattern
set hlsearch incsearch ignorecase smartcase
Don’t hide the mouse cursor while typing
set nomousehide
Right-click pops up contect menu
set mousemodel=popup
Show cursor position in status bar
set ruler
Show line numbers on left
set number
Disable code folding
set nofoldenable
Scroll the window so we can always see 10 lines around the cursor
set scrolloff=10
Kernel coding style
set tabstop=8
set softtabstop=8
set shiftwidth=8
set noexpandtab
Enable file type detection
filetype plugin indent on
Shortcut to search visually selected text
vnoremap // y/<C-R>"<CR>
Check if running on gvim
if has("gui_running")
Set terminal color to 256
set t_Co=256
Check if using Windows
if has("win32") || has("win16")
Set Ubuntu Mono font with size 11
set guifont=Ubuntu\ Mono:h11
Use solarized colorscheme
colorscheme solarized
Set the background to dark color
set background=dark
Highlight the current line
set cursorline
Use letter as the print output format
set printoptions=paper:letter
I use Ubuntu font which can be download from font.ubuntu.com. To enable solarized colorscheme, download file solarized.vim from https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized/. If you want to look my personal vim configuration, you can find it here.
I use this configuration in my Linux workstation and server.
I use exclusively for editing
linux kernel and other open source projects. For daily programming use, you can
change the value of tabstop, softtabstop and shiftwidth.
Happy Vimming!