Favorite minimalistic .vimrc configuration

Question

There are .vimrc related questions found here and here.

This question wants to deal with a minimalistic .vimrc file.

If you are on a new machine with no .vimrc file what are some 'must turn on' commands you use before doing any typing?

Answer 1

syntax enable
set background=dark for black xterms.
set autoindent when I'm going to develop.

Answer 2

Since I am on new machines a lot, I have put my minimalistic .vimrc on my homepage here. So I don't have to carry it around on an USB stick.

Don't know, if there's anything for you in it or not.

Rene

Answer 3

Lots of .vimrc ideas can be found here.

Answer 4

This deviates a bit from the letter of the question, but is hopefully within the spirit. The very first thing I do on a new machine is set -o vi to get vi-style key bindings on the commandline.

Answer 5

My vimrc lives on my dropbox folder. But it's not minimalistic.

If I'm doing something really simple (not worth grabbing my real vimrc) I'll do the following:

:set nocompatible
:set number
:set showmatch
:map! <F3> <Esc>

Answer 6

There is never a need for a minimalistic configuration. This solves everything:

wget -O ~/.vimrc http://github.com/lucasoman/Conf/raw/master/.vimrc

Answer 7

Here's my minimal settings with comments:

set backspace=2         " backspace in insert mode works like normal editor
syntax on               " syntax highlighting
filetype indent on      " activates indenting for files
set autoindent          " auto indenting
set number              " line numbers
colorscheme desert      " colorscheme desert
set nobackup            " get rid of anoying ~file