vim configuration copied from https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vimrc-configuration-guide-customize-your-vim-editor/

vimconf

.vim/
 ├── autoload/
 ├── backup/
 ├── colors/
 └── plugged/
 
 $ mkdir -p ~/.vim ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/backup ~/.vim/color ~/.vim/plugged

$ touch ~/.vimrc

" Disable compatibility with vi which can cause unexpected issues.
set nocompatible

" Enable type file detection. Vim will be able to try to detect the type of file in use.
filetype on

" Enable plugins and load plugin for the detected file type.
filetype plugin on

" Load an indent file for the detected file type.
filetype indent on

" Turn syntax highlighting on.
syntax on

" Add numbers to each line on the left-hand side.
set number
" Highlight cursor line underneath the cursor horizontally.
set cursorline

" Highlight cursor line underneath the cursor vertically.
set cursorcolumn

" Set shift width to 4 spaces.
set shiftwidth=4

" Set tab width to 4 columns.
set tabstop=4

" Use space characters instead of tabs.
set expandtab

" Do not save backup files.
set nobackup

" Do not let cursor scroll below or above N number of lines when scrolling.
set scrolloff=10

" Do not wrap lines. Allow long lines to extend as far as the line goes.
set nowrap

" While searching though a file incrementally highlight matching characters as you type.
set incsearch

" Ignore capital letters during search.
set ignorecase

" Override the ignorecase option if searching for capital letters.
" This will allow you to search specifically for capital letters.
set smartcase

" Show partial command you type in the last line of the screen.
set showcmd

" Show the mode you are on the last line.
set showmode

" Show matching words during a search.
set showmatch

" Use highlighting when doing a search.
set hlsearch

" Set the commands to save in history default number is 20.
set history=1000

" Enable auto completion menu after pressing TAB.
set wildmenu

" Make wildmenu behave like similar to Bash completion.
set wildmode=list:longest

" There are certain files that we would never want to edit with Vim.
" Wildmenu will ignore files with these extensions.
set wildignore=*.docx,*.jpg,*.png,*.gif,*.pdf,*.pyc,*.exe,*.flv,*.img,*.xlsx



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Adding plugins
linux/mac: $ curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
windows: $  iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim |` ni $HOME/vimfiles/autoload/plug.vim -Force
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