A minimal vimrc for beginners

vimrc

" 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

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