A sane, very minimal .vimrc

.vimrc

filetype plugin indent on          " filetype detection and settings
syntax on                          " syntax highlighting
silent! runtime macros/matchit.vim " matchit comes with Vim
set nocompatible                   " not strictly necessary but useful in some scenarios
set backspace=indent,eol,start     " let the backspace key work "normally"
set hidden                         " hide unsaved buffers
set incsearch                      " incremental search rules
set laststatus=2                   " not strictly necessary but good for consistency
set ruler                          " shows line number in the status line
set switchbuf=useopen,usetab       " better behavior for the quickfix window and :sb
set tags=./tags;/,tags;/           " search tags files efficiently
set wildmenu                       " better command line completion, shows a list of matches
nnoremap gb :buffers<CR>:sb<Space> " quick buffer navigation