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" A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with. | |
" | |
" Referenced here: http://www.benorenstein.com/blog/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty/ | |
" Original Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | |
" Made more minimal by: Ben Orenstein | |
" Last change: 2012 Jan 20 | |
" | |
" To use it, copy it to | |
" for Unix and OS/2: ~/.vimrc | |
" for MS-DOS and Win32: $VIM\_vimrc | |
" | |
" If you don't understand a setting in here, just type ':h setting'. | |
" Switch syntax highlighting on | |
syntax on | |
" Make backspace behave in a sane manner. | |
set backspace=indent,eol,start | |
" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting. | |
filetype plugin indent on |
Getting even more minimal!
That's awesome. It's nice getting things more minimal! Just for fun, here's my current minimalist configuration that I use for serious, day-to-day frontend and backend development.
Thanks for the explanation @ryanolsonx and no offence taken :) I'm just starting to learn vim and misunderstood the docs (didn't realise that defaults.vim is not loaded if .vimrc is found)!
For beginners, maybe split the last setting into its parts to be more explicit? Or not, no strong feelings here.
" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
@ryanolsonx Thanks for the elaboration. Just letting you know that your link is broken. I started to learn (or rather re-learn) Vim again and want to do it this time from scratch.
@vvznz Sorry! Here’s a new link for it: https://github.com/ryanolsonx/dotfiles/blob/dfebd1ffeb68f27fd0507c120348eb3694a058c7/.vimrc
@goalaleo You're wrong. (I tried to think of a nice way to say this - please don't take this in an aggressive manner)
TLDR:
set backspace=indent,eol,start
is not the default.set backspace=
is. If you don't have a vimrc, defaults.vim will run, which will change backspace (to what you mentioned). If you have a vimrc, Vim will not run defaults.vim and so your backspace will use the default ("").More explanation:
It's more complicated than that.
As you can see, the default is "". This means that your backspace functionality will be limited.
This leads me to defaults.vim.
Your configuration was changed in defaults.vim. To explore why it was set in defaults.vim, you need to understand when defaults.vim is applied.
In the vim repo, it says:
So - once you create a vimrc file, the defaults.vim will not run (unless you do something fancy that I'll list below).
If you do want to use the Vim defaults.vim (which is an opt-in sort of thing so that configs don't break that rely on previous Vim behavior), you can put this in your Vim config near the top: