Vim configuration

.vimrc

syn on "  start using syntax highlighting

set termguicolors "  using true colors in the reminal

colorscheme monokai "  set custom colorscheme 

set encoding=utf-8 " Encoding 

set hidden " Allow hidden buffers 

set ttyfast " Rendering 

set cursorline "  highlight current line

set cursorcolumn "  highlight current collumn  

syn sync fromstart "  force the highlighting engine to start parsing from the top of the file 

set number "  enabling row numbers 

set showcmd " show command in bottom bar
set showmode 

nnoremap <leader><space> :nohlsearch<CR>

filetype indent on " load filetype-specific indent files

set wildmenu " visual autocomplete for command menu

set lazyredraw " redraw only when we need to.

set showmatch " highlight matching [{()}]

set list " show invisible characters 

set incsearch " search as characters are entered

set visualbell " Blink cursor on error instead of beeping (grr) 

set hlsearch " highlight matches

set autoindent " enabling autoindedntation 

set tabstop=8 softtabstop=0 expandtab shiftwidth=2 smarttab " indents consisting of 2 spaces with tab key 

set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus " allowing Vim to use clipboard (unnamed is for Linux compatibility)