On: LazyVim

[jstanley]

I do roughly this too, except my vimrc is about 8 lines. I type it out from memory every time I use a new machine.

[majjam → jstanley]

Would you mind sharing it? Im just getting to grips with vim so any pointers towards some simple improvements would be much appreciated.

[jstanley → majjam]

Sure:

  set ts=4
  set sw=4
  set softtabstop=4
  set expandtab
  set hlsearch
  set incsearch
  set wildmode=longest,list

OK, only 7 lines then :)

Basically: tabs are 4 spaces, searching works better, and tab completion works like bash.

[tambourine_man → jstanley]

Oh no, I need at the very least timeoutlen, visualbell and line number. I type that manually when I SSH if I must. Don't want to wait for ESC, no beeps at all and I wanna know where I am on the document.

And lots more is needed for decent Vim IMO. smartcase, set hidden, etc.

[jstanley → tambourine_man]

I read that most people only use about 10% of vim's features, but everyone uses a different 10% :)

[cempaka → tambourine_man]

relativenumber is essential too, unless you like typing something like d-638-<Shift>-G just to delete 15 or 20 lines of text.

[jstanley → cempaka]

I actually think lack of line numbering is essential, because I quite frequently want to select blocks of code with the mouse and yank into the clipboard.

[tambourine_man → jstanley]

That is true, but you can integrate tmux and vim with the system's clipboard. Then again, :set nu! is easy to type.

[majjam → jstanley]

Thank you!

[gsinclair → majjam]

Take a look at the vim-sensible plugin. No need to install it, just see what the generally agreed sensible settings are.

[DiabloD3 → gsinclair]

Most of vim-sensible is already default or equivalent on Neovim, fwiw.