" An example /etc/vimrc file. " The command in this file are applied when Vim is started. " When started as "evim", evim.vim will already have done these settings. if v:progname =~? "evim" finish endif " " Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!). " This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect. set nocompatible " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode set backspace=indent,eol,start set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history set ruler " show the cursor position all the time set showcmd " display incomplete commands set incsearch " do incremental searching " For Win32 GUI: remove 't' flag from 'guioptions': no tearoff menu entries " let &guioptions = substitute(&guioptions, "t", "", "g") " Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting map Q gq " In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it. set mouse=a " Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors " Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") syntax on set hlsearch endif " Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands. if has("autocmd") " Enable file type detection. " Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72, " 'cindent' is on in C files, etc. " Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting. filetype plugin indent on " Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily. augroup vimrcEx au! " For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters. autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78 " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position. " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler " (happens when dropping a file on gvim). autocmd BufReadPost * \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | \ exe "normal! g`\"" | \ endif augroup END else set autoindent " always set autoindenting on endif " has("autocmd") " Convenient command to see the difference between the current buffer and the " file it was loaded from, thus the changes you made. command! DiffOrig vert new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis \ | wincmd p | diffthis if has("gui-running") set ch=2 " Make command line two lines high set mousehide " Hide the mouse when typing text " Make shift-insert work like in Xterm map map! " Only do this for Vim version 5.0 and later. if version >= 500 " I like highlighting strings inside C comments let c_comment_strings=1 " Switch on syntax highlighting if it wasn't on yet. if !exists("syntax_on") syntax on endif " Switch on search pattern highlighting. set hlsearch " For Win32 version, have "K" lookup the keyword in a help file "if has("win32") " let winhelpfile='windows.hlp' " map K :execute "!start winhlp32 -k " . winhelpfile "endif " Set nice colors " background for normal text is light grey " Text below the last line is darker grey " Cursor is green, Cyan when ":lmap" mappings are active " Constants are not underlined but have a slightly lighter background highlight Normal guibg=grey90 highlight Cursor guibg=Green guifg=NONE highlight lCursor guibg=Cyan guifg=NONE highlight NonText guibg=grey80 highlight Constant gui=NONE guibg=grey95 highlight Special gui=NONE guibg=grey95 endif endif