Talles LBelow goes my fairly humble .vimrc. This post acts primarily as a handy backup for myself and secondarily is yet another .vimrc shared in the wild (I've learned a lot on those).
" utf-8 displaying in terminal
set encoding=utf-8
" utf-8 writing to file
set fileencoding=utf-8
" common backspace behavior
set backspace=2
" # of spaces of a tab
set tabstop=4
" # of spaces when indenting with << and >>
set shiftwidth=4
" use spaces rather than tab
set expandtab
" show line numbers
set number
" highlight current line
set cursorline
" always show status line
set laststatus=2
" just filename on status line
set statusline=%=%f
" always show tab bar
set showtabline=2
" column guideline
set colorcolumn=120
" lines visible above/below cursor when scrolling
set scrolloff=2
" highlight matches
set hlsearch
" Ctrl+L to clear match highlight
nnoremap <c-l> :nohlsearch<CR><C-L>
" replace globally by default
set gdefault
" case insensitive searches
set ignorecase
" new tab on up arrow
nnoremap <Up> :Texplore<cr>
" close tab on down arrow
nnoremap <Down> :quit<cr>
" previous tab on left arrow
nnoremap <Left> :tabprevious<cr>
" next tab on right arrow
nnoremap <Right> :tabnext<cr>
" enabling mouse
set mouse=a
" mouse scroll up
map <ScrollWheelUp> <c-y>
" mouse scroll down
map <ScrollWheelDown> <c-e>
" bash-like tab completion
set wildmode=longest,list
" syntax highlight
syntax on
"enabling 256 colors required by zenburn
set t_Co=256
" zenburn colorscheme (make sure ~/.vim/colors/zenburn.vim exists)
colorscheme zenburn
" better current tab color
hi TabLineSel ctermbg=102
My configuration is fairly vanilla, no plugins and the only external file is for the zenburn color scheme.
The unique thing about it is how I remap the arrow keys. Left and right for tab navigation. Down closes tab. Up opens a new tab with Netrw for file browsing (who needs NERDTree?).
