Basic .vimrc

.vimrc

set termguicolors

" Set compatibility to Vim only.
" be vim no vi.
set nocompatible

" Disable the default Vim startup message.
set shortmess+=I

" Helps force plug-ins to load correctly when it is turned back on below.
filetype off

" Turn on syntax highlighting.
syntax on

" For plug-ins to load correctly.
filetype indent plugin on

" Turn off modelines
set modelines=0

" Automatically wrap text that extends beyond the screen length.
set wrap
" Vim's auto indentation feature does not work properly with text copied from outside of Vim. Press the <F2> key to toggle paste mode on/off.
nnoremap <F2> :set invpaste paste?<CR>
imap <F2> <C-O>:set invpaste paste?<CR>
set pastetoggle=<F2>

" Uncomment below to set the max textwidth. Use a value corresponding to the width of your screen.
" set textwidth=79
set formatoptions=tcqrn1
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab
set noshiftround
set autoindent

" Display 5 lines above/below the cursor when scrolling with a mouse.
set scrolloff=5
" Fixes common backspace problems
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Speed up scrolling in Vim
set ttyfast

" Status bar
set laststatus=2

" Display options
set showmode
set showcmd
set showmatch

" Highlight matching pairs of brackets. Use the '%' character to jump between them.
set matchpairs+=<:>

" Display different types of white spaces.
set list
set listchars=tab:›\ ,eol:↲,nbsp:␣,trail:•,extends:⟩,precedes:⟨

" Show line numbers
set number
set relativenumber

" Set status line display
set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ [FORMAT=%{&ff}]\ [TYPE=%Y]\ [POS=%l,%v][%p%%]\ [BUFFER=%n]\ %{strftime('%c')}

" Encoding
set encoding=utf-8

" Highlight matching search patterns
set hlsearch
" Enable incremental search
set incsearch
" Include matching uppercase words with lowercase search term
set ignorecase
" Include only uppercase words with uppercase search term
set smartcase

" Store info from no more than 100 files at a time, 9999 lines of text, 100kb of data. Useful for copying large amounts of data between files.
set viminfo='100,<9999,s100

" Map the <Space> key to toggle a selected fold opened/closed.
nnoremap <silent> <Space> @=(foldlevel('.')?'za':"\<Space>")<CR>
vnoremap <Space> zf

" Automatically save and load folds
autocmd BufWinLeave *.* mkview
autocmd BufWinEnter *.* silent loadview"

set ai
set ruler
highlight Comment ctermfg=green

" By default, Vim doesn't let you hide a buffer (i.e. have a buffer that isn't
" shown in any window) that has unsaved changes. This is to prevent you from "
" forgetting about unsaved changes and then quitting e.g. via `:qa!`. We find
" hidden buffers helpful enough to disable this protection. See `:help hidden`
" for more information on this.
set hidden

" Unbind some useless/annoying default key bindings.
nmap Q <Nop> " 'Q' in normal mode enters Ex mode. You almost never want this.

" Disable audible bell because it's annoying.
set noerrorbells visualbell t_vb=

" Enable mouse support. You should avoid relying on this too much, but it can
" sometimes be convenient.
set mouse+=a

" Try to prevent bad habits like using the arrow keys for movement. This is
" not the only possible bad habit. For example, holding down the h/j/k/l keys
" for movement, rather than using more efficient movement commands, is also a
" bad habit. The former is enforceable through a .vimrc, while we don't know
" how to prevent the latter.
" Do this in normal mode...
nnoremap <Left>  :echoe "Use h"<CR>
nnoremap <Right> :echoe "Use l"<CR>
nnoremap <Up>    :echoe "Use k"<CR>
nnoremap <Down>  :echoe "Use j"<CR>
" ...and in insert mode
inoremap <Left>  <ESC>:echoe "Use h"<CR>
inoremap <Right> <ESC>:echoe "Use l"<CR>
inoremap <Up>    <ESC>:echoe "Use k"<CR>
inoremap <Down>  <ESC>:echoe "Use j"<CR>