My VIM Configuration

Posted by jason on May 21, 2011, 6:19 a.m.
Tags: linux vim

I use VIM as my main IDE when doing any sort of dev work. So, I invested a few hours configuring things so that it would behave a bit more friendly for me. Here are some features in my configuration:

  • Tab completion
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Capital "H" and "L" move left and right between open tabs
  • Capital "Q" closes the current tab
  • Backspace key is freed
  • Tabs are 4 spaces

Here's the config file. Put it in ~/.vimrc or ~/.exrc. There's a download link at the bottom of this page.

syn on
set number
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
set showmode
set showcmd
set ruler
set backspace=start,indent,eol
set wrapscan
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set tags=tags;
set wildmenu
set wildmode=longest,full
set expandtab
nnoremap   :TlistToggle
"also try wildmode=longest,full or longest,list
"
"to create nice aliases: 'imap ;EM jason@jason.com'
"

"“ Insert  or complete identifier“ if the cursor is after a keyword
"character
function MyTabOrComplete()    
    let col = col('.')-1    
    if !col || getline('.')[col-1] !~ '\k'    
        return "\"    
    else    
        return "\"    
    endif
endfunction

inoremap  =MyTabOrComplete()

set makeprg=php\ -l\ %
set errorformat=%m\ in\ %f\ on\ line\ %l

"Use H and L to switch between tabs
:map  gT
:map  gt

"Use Q to close tabs
:map  :q 
:filetype plugin on

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