Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#1

Post by Xichekolas » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:13 PM UTC

Other than the default stuff of course. As you can see, my additions are quite pathetic so far (only been into vim for a few months):

  set expandtab
  set sts=2
  if v:progname =~? "gvim"
    colorscheme twilight
  endif

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#2

Post by lanstein » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:28 PM UTC

perhaps of interest:

  " for vertical split, with the pipe dividers hidden
  :hi clear vertsplit
  :hi vertsplit ctermbg=Black ctermfg=Black

  " quit quits all
  :nmap :q :qa
  :nmap :wq :wqa

  " H/L go to beginning/end of line without moving fingers
  :nmap H 0
  :nmap L $

  " turn off matching paren highlighting
  let loaded_matchparen = 1

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#3

Post by rarrrrrr » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:28 PM UTC

  "tab completion of words in insert mode
  function InsertTabWrapper()
        let col = col('.') - 1
        if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
            return "\"
        else
            return "\"
        endif
  endfunction

  inoremap  =InsertTabWrapper()

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#4

Post by txxxxd » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:30 PM UTC

Most of what I use was copied from this excellent site: http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#5

Post by geocar » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:33 PM UTC

    set vi

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#6

Post by cdmwebs » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:35 PM UTC

Lots: http://github.com/cdmwebs/dotfiles/raw/master/vimrc

Probably time to clean it up a bit.

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#7

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:35 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#8

Post by aristoxenus » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:39 PM UTC

Some I like:

  " Keep cycled-away buffers open (preserving undo, 
  " allowing buffer switch without write)
  set hidden

  " Facilities for handling pasting into vim, preserving
  " indentation of the pasted text.
  " This will make  start paste mode and  stop paste mode.
  " Note that typing  in paste mode inserts , since in paste
  " mode everything is inserted literally, except the 'pastetoggle' key
  " sequence.
  map  :set paste
  map  :set nopaste
  imap  :set paste
  imap  
  set pastetoggle=

  " Toggle line-numbers with key sequence Ctrl-N-N:
  nmap  :set invnumber 

  " Consolidate swapfiles to keep working directories clean
  set directory=~/.vim/swap

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#9

Post by aristoxenus » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:41 PM UTC

txxxxd wrote: post #4

Most of what I use was copied from this excellent site: http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php

I wonder why you were voted down (not answering OP question to the letter?) -- that's one of the nicest references I've seen.

Re: Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?

#10

Post by dtf » Thu, Oct 01, 2009, 11:42 PM UTC

Map some "leader" commands for common operations, eg:

  let mapleader=','
  let g:mapleader=','

  nmap w :w!
  nmap q :q
  nmap f :find
  map d :execute 'NERDTreeToggle ' . getcwd()
  nmap m :make

  " cut & paste
  map c "+y
  map x "+d
  map v "+p

Also quicker window navigation:

  map  j
  map  k
  map  h
  map  l