Comments on: My current .vimrc file

By: selecting and writing out a portion of a file | Vim-Fu

selecting and writing out a portion of a file | Vim-Fu — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:34:42 +0000

[...] my current .vimrc file [...]

By: admin

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:31:32 +0000

Thanks Justin!

“This option has the effect of making Vim either more Vi-compatible, or make Vim behave in a more useful way.” – The Vim documentation

Nuff said. However, if you are going to do this (I did) you should also read this from the same docs, “CAREFUL: Setting or resetting this option can have a lot of unexpected effects: Mappings are interpreted in another way, undo behaves differently, etc. If you set this option in your vimrc file, you should probably put it at the very start.”

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:14:48 +0000

A bunch of enhancements are only available in vim mode. You can turn off vi compatibility by doing:
set nocompatible

As as example, I usually enable the ruler for the bottom of the screen:
set ruler