Vim > Configuration

gvimrc

" Set the font
set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12

" My favourite color scheme for the GUI
colorscheme koehler

" Remove toolbar
set guioptions-=T

" Remove right scrollbar
set guioptions-=r

" Remove menu
set guioptions-=m

" Disable visual bell again when GUI starts
au GuiEnter * set t_vb=

" Highlight cursor line
set cursorline

" Change background for line numbers
hi LineNr guibg=#101010 guifg=#FFFFFF

" Change line number width
set numberwidth=8

vimrc

set nocompatible

" Display line numbers
set number

" Allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Do not keep backup files
set nobackup

" Keep 1000 lines of command line history
set history=1000

" Show the cursor position all the time
set ruler

" Display incomplete commands
set showcmd

" Do incremental searching
set incsearch

" Ignore case on search
set ignorecase

" Dont ignore case only if there is a capital letter in the search expression
set smartcase

" Highlight search matches
set hlsearch

" Tab size
set tabstop=4

" Smart tab insertion
set smarttab

" Syntax Highlighting
syntax on

" Auto indentation
set autoindent

" Spaces used for auto-indent
set shiftwidth=4

" Indent to nearest tabstop
set shiftround

" Turn off both beep and visual bell
set visualbell t_vb=

" Completion behave similarly to a shell
set wildmode=list:longest

" Type specific configurations
filetype on

" Hiddes buffers instead closing them
set hidden

" Remap leader key
let mapleader = ","

" CTRL-Right arrow: go to next window, CTRL-Left arrow: go to previous window
map <leader>n :bnext<CR>
map <leader>p :bprevious<CR>

" Change terminal title when in text mode
set title

" Scroll the viewport faster
nnoremap <C-e> 3<C-e>
nnoremap <C-y> 3<C-y>

" Status line
set laststatus=2
set statusline=%t       "tail of the filename
set statusline+=\ [%{strlen(&fenc)?&fenc:'none'}, "file encoding
set statusline+=%{&ff}] "file format
set statusline+=%h      "help file flag
set statusline+=%m      "modified flag
set statusline+=%r      "read only flag
set statusline+=%y      "filetype
set statusline+=%=      "left/right separator
set statusline+=%c,     "cursor column
set statusline+=%l/%L   "cursor line/total lines
set statusline+=\ %P    "percent through file


" Use X Window Clipboard
set clipboard=unnamed

I use this .vimrc configuration files next to this Vim plugins:

http://www.delicious.com/sourcerebels/Vim+Plugin