personal .vimrc, color scheme https://github.com/tomasiser/vim-code-dark

.vimrc

set nocompatible
set autoindent
set clipboard=unnamedplus " using the X Window clipboard

" colors
colorscheme codedark " color scheme
syntax enable
set background=dark
set t_Co=256

" spaces and tabs
set tabstop=2       " The width of a TAB is set to 4.
                    " Still it is a \t. It is just that
                    " Vim will interpret it to be having
                    " a width of 4.

set shiftwidth=2    " Indents will have a width of 4

set softtabstop=2   " Sets the number of columns for a TAB

set expandtab       " Expand TABs to spaces

" UI config
set relativenumber  " show line numbers
set showcmd "show command in bottom bar
set cursorline  "highlight current line
filetype indent on  " load filetype-specific indent files
set wildmenu    " visual autocomplete for command menu
set lazyredraw  " redraw only when we need to.
set showmatch   " highlight matching [{()}]

" Searching
set incsearch   " search as characters are entered
set hlsearch    " highlight matches