A minimal vimrc for new vim users

minimal.vim

" A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with.
"
" Referenced here: http://vimuniversity.com/samples/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty
"
" Original Author:	     Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
" Made more minimal by:  Ben Orenstein
" Modified by :          Ben McCormick
" Last change:	         2014 June 8
"
" To use it, copy it to
"  for Unix based systems (including OSX and Linux):  ~/.vimrc
"  for Windows :  $VIM\_vimrc
"
"  If you don't understand a setting in here, just type ':h setting'.

" Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

" Make backspace behave in a sane manner.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Switch syntax highlighting on
syntax on

" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin indent on

" Show line numbers
set number

" Allow hidden buffers, don't limit to 1 file per window/split
set hidden

set nocompatible is redundant, if vim finds an vimrc or gvmrc file compatible is turned off automatically.

Maybe, but i think its better for beginners if this is explicitly added, so they know of it.

On windows the backup files do create a mess of the folders and aught to be addressed for us beginners :)

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