Hi Bram,
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:02:56PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Vim has always been conservative about the default option values.
And that is actually a very good thing.
As I work as a consultant, and the systems the customers use have
a wide variety of Linux distributions of varying age and thus vim
default settings, most often I end up setting a few options
anyway. (I often go with ":se ls=2 nu nocp" and "colorscheme
koehler" for a basic "feel at home" setting, while my .vimrc at
home is rather long (~800 lines)).
I'd like to share some thoughts here.
> What we can probably always do:
>
> set backspace=indent,eol,start
I personally don't like that one, especially the "start" part of
it. I always considered it a feature to not be able to backspace
over the start of insert.
Actually, when I encounter a vim that is configured to add
"start" to 'backspace', I usually unset this as soon as I see it.
> 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
I often use all of those, also adding hlsearch.
> " Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
> map Q gq
I don't like this one. But then I occassionally actually use Ex mode.
> " In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it.
> if has('mouse')
> set mouse=a
> endif
Please... no.
I always hat it whenever a distribution does this by default,
moving the cursor for a simple cut&paste operation.
> if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
> syntax on
> set hlsearch
> let c_comment_strings=1
> endif
I could live with those (usually using most of that anyway, not
the c_comment_strings however)
> if has("autocmd")
[...]
> endif
I'd suggest not using that.
> if has('langmap') && exists('+langnoremap')
> set langnoremap
> endif
I don't actually care about this one.
> Probably not:
>
> " these two leave files behind
> set backup
> set undofile
>
> " may conflict with a user mapping
> inoremap <C-U> <C-G>u<C-U>
>
> " hard to revert
> if has('syntax') && has('eval')
> packadd matchit
> endif
Yes, please leave those out.
Ciao,
Thomas
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