Minimal .vimrc for ssh sessions. Works out of the box with vim 8 and/or vim 7 - used on AWS default ec2 AMI. Built for use on remote servers, or for doing code interviews.

.vimrc

" basic syntax highlighting and completion
syntax on
filetype plugin on
set omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete

" quality of life changes
"set nu
set smarttab
set autoindent
set nobackup
set noswapfile
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set completeopt-=preview
set shortmess+=c

" autoclose brackets etc	
inoremap " ""<left>	
inoremap ' ''<left>	
inoremap ( ()<left>	
inoremap [ []<left>	
inoremap { {}<left>	
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O	
inoremap {;<CR> {<CR>};<ESC>O

" since I'm using this for go programming, and I like gofmt, reload on change
autocmd FocusGained,BufEnter,CursorHold,CursorHoldI * if mode() != 'c' | checktime | endif
autocmd FileChangedShellPost *
  \ echohl WarningMsg | echo "File changed on disk. Buffer reloaded." | echohl None

" second part of the reload game, we run gofmt on save - quick and dirty
nnoremap <c-z> :!gofmt -w % <CR><CR> :e <CR>
map ;; :w<cr> <c-z>