> > I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a > while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... > > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I > invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I > get rid of that behaviour? >
Never seen this behaviour. > 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? I've set > background to dark, but it makes no difference - it still inists on using > such groovy combinations as dark blue on black. In the past I have edited > /usr/syntax/vim directly, commenting out the dark settings, and changing > the colours in the light scheme more to my liking. However, it tends to get > hosed every time I upgrade vim, which is a PITA. How do I set up vim to use > my personal colour settings? (FWIW I think the doc system on vim is awful - > the one thing I really don't like about it) > Make a ~ entry for vim rather than using the global settings. > 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was > mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do > I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is > there some other key that is used for that purpose? > I disagree w/ using spaces, tabs are nice and allow each user to set their own tab space (i like 4, you like 3 so we each set our tabset appropriately and never have to edit the code)