Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

#1

Post by jiannengli » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc
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Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by lilyball » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

Keeping the swapfile on is really helpful when I accidentally open the same file in two different vim editors. But I do recommend configuring vim to place swapfiles in a different location, so you’re not scattering them all over your disk.

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by CalChris » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:54 PM UTC

I'm not going to set noswf. However, I run into the problem the writer mentions all the time where I'm opening an already opened file. Is it possible to just switch to the already opened file?

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by toxik » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

I'd prefer one line it and use the "long" names and add nocompatible

    set nocompatible hlsearch incsearch ignorecase number

then sane tabs

    set et sts=4 sw=4

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by strogonoff » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:58 PM UTC

Why not one line?

    set hls ic is nu noswf

On a serious note, personally disabling line numbers is the first thing I do in a new editor. Reduces visual noise—status line usually shows current line number anyway, jumping to a line might take a second and I found I don’t need to know my line numbers more frequently than once per month or so.

What I do like to enable in an editor is visible whitespace characters (helps notice levels of indent, for example). In Vim that can be accomplished with:

    set list listchars+=space:•

(Might take some tweaking to make whitespace appear subtly enough, depending on your color scheme.)

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by BalinKing » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

In Firefox on macOS, the font fallback to "Apple Color Emoji" is doing really weird things on my machine (like cutting off the top of the number "5").

With that said, thanks for the tips—`set noswapfile` definitely fits my workflow more than not.

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by pletnes » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

I have «relativenumber» but I’ve never touched swapfile. Otherwise I have the same 5. Funny - I often felt vim’s defaults are almost intentionally archaic.

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by bonquesha99 » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

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Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by climb_stealth » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

lilyball wrote: post #2

Keeping the swapfile on is really helpful when I accidentally open the same file in two different vim editors. But I do recommend configuring vim to place swapfiles in a different location, so you’re not scattering them all over your disk.

I actually went full on in the other direction and often have multiple vim instances working on the same file. It feels so much better than having to deal with swap file error messages. With the below it reloads the file when the window gets into focus. Super helpful when working in lots of terminal tabs. You just have to get into a habit of saving after every change as it conflicts otherwise.

    " check for and load file changes when a window is focused. Together with
    " `noswapfile` this allows to edit the same file in multiple nvim instances and
    " have the changes reloaded whenever the focus is changed.
    autocmd WinEnter,BufWinEnter,FocusGained * checktime

Re: Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc

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Post by pletnes » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

toxik wrote: post #4

I'd prefer one line it and use the "long" names and add nocompatible set nocompatible hlsearch incsearch ignorecase number then sane tabs set et sts=4 sw=4

Why nocompatible?