Before doing anything, just go on Youtube to listen Eric Burdon and War, it will help you.

You can get the full .vimrc without plugins!

it’s a great job!

Vim configuration sits in one file (~/.vimrc by default) and a directory (~/.vim by default). The best way to configure Vim is with a plugin manager such Vundle. Since version 8, Vim has it’s own plugin manager. Today, Vim 8 can be easily installed on a lot of distributions.

The great job is I want a full IDE made with Vim!

reloading ~/.vimrc

While you’re listening Eric Burdon (his version of nights in white satin is really beautiful), learn the first useful command to know while configuring Vim and which is how to reload the configuration file. If your current buffer contains ~/.vimrc, you just do:

:source %

where the % design the file in the current buffer. You can use the name of the file like that:

:source ~/.vimrc

You had to be careful, too much source can create some problems, variables are not always reset to their default values.

getting help in Vim

To have more details about each elements of the configuration, ask Vim with, for example, :help nocompatible.

basic configuration

Before all, we had to tell Vim that we don’t want compatibility with old, very old, very very old versions of vi:

" no compatibility with old versions
" of vi, must be one of the first directives
set nocompatible
" modelines can be hatmful
set modelines=0

First, we set line numbers and show the most we can on the ruler. Add this in your ~/.vimrc:

" show line numbers
set number
set norelativenumber
" show line and column number of cursor position
set ruler
" show current mode
set showmode
set showcmd
" enable mouse on a terminal
" depending of the type of terminal emulation, X11 configuration, ...
" it can failed
set mouse=a

If you need to hide line numbers, just do ‘set nonumber’. Then, we enable indentation and syntax highlight following file type :

" encoding...
set encoding=utf-8
" enable indentation
filetype plugin indent on
" and syntax highlight
syntax on

After that, I set tabulations as 4 spaces:

" tabulations
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=0
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4