vimrc/essentials.vimrc

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" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
" basic essentials
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" don't make vim vi compatible (if not set you miss out on a lot of features!)
" you'll see this option set in most configuration files found online
set nocompatible
" enable filetype recognition plus indent and plugin (pretty much mandatory)
filetype plugin indent on " required
" enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
" backspace can be a tricky thing and this setting make it work a lot better
set backspace=indent,eol,start
" when tab completing on the expert line you don't want to miss out on EDIT vs
" edit or nerdtree vs NERDTree and this setting ignores case completely
set ignorecase
" highlight your search patterns (very handy when building regexes)
set hlsearch
" highlight the search pattern as-you-go (tremendously helpful when
" constructing regexes)
set incsearch
" always show a status line at the bottom of your vim which shows some basic
" information about the file, which line you're at etc
set laststatus=2
" show files in statusbar when opening via expert mode
set wildmenu
" also show all possible expert mode commands in the statusline
set wildmode=full
" reverse numbering (in the sideline) so you don't have to manually count how
" many lines you have to yank
set rnu
" it's also nice to still have your absolute line number in the sideline
set nu
" can do copy paste from the clipboard
set clipboard=unnamedplus
" automatically save buffers
set autowrite
set autowriteall
" spaces not tabs for coding purposes
set sw=4
set ts=4
set sts=4
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set autoindent
set expandtab
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" mouse usage can be handy, especially when using LspPeekDefinition
set mouse=a
" enable code folding
set foldmethod=indent
" set SPACE to toggle a fold
nnoremap <SPACE> za
" set the leader key for shortcuts (uncomment if you don't want it to be the
" default \ key
"let mapleader=";"