Konfiguration

Die Konfiguration in ~/.vimrc kann z.B. folgendermaßen aussehen:

" Sets the character encoding inside vim
set encoding=utf-8

" no automatic line wrap
set textwidth=0

" automatically indent lines
set autoindent
" auto-indenting for code paste
set paste

" Changes all tabs in spaces
set expandtab
" Number of spaces for each Tab
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
" Tabs are always 'tabstop' positions
set softtabstop=4

" <BS>, <Del>, CTRL-W and CTRL-U in Insert mode:
" indent   allow backspacing over autoindent
" eol      allow backspacing over line breaks (join lines)
" start    allow backspacing over the start of insert; CTRL-W and CTRL-U
"          stop once at the start of insert.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Incremental searching
set incsearch
" Ignore case in search patterns
set ignorecase
" Highlight all search matches
set hlsearch

" Show the line and column number of the cursor position
set ruler

" command-line completion operates in an enhanced mode.  On pressing 'wildchar'
" (usually <Tab>) to invoke completion, the possible matches are shown just
" above the command line, with the first match highlighted
set wildmenu

" A template for a comment.  The "%s" in the value is replaced with the
" comment text.
set commentstring=\ #\ %s

" Sets the fold level: Folds with a higher level will be closed.
" Setting this option to zero will close all folds.
set foldlevel=0

" Syntax highlighting
syntax on

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-