Vim is my favorite editor. I grew so accustomed to it i nearly use it everywhere

The default installation, however, misses some settings which i set up in my .vimrc configuration file.

This is primarily meant as a starting point for developing your own configs.

Features

• Smart indent
• Syntax highlighting
• Dark colorscheme
• Default settings for tabs and whitespaces (expand to whitespaces, 1 tab = 4 whitespaces)
• Hide toolbar (not needed for power users, i think)
• Custom function for inclusion of text snippets from the ~/.vim directory (especially useful for gpl headers, etc.)
• Custom key mappings
  • F2: Save & Build (call :make)
  • F3: Next Error
  • Shift-F3: Previous Error
  • F12: Open Directory browser in the current file path
  • Toggle Insert/Normal mode with CTRL-Enter (it’s faster for me)

Of course all these settings only reflect my personal taste and you are in fact encouraged to modify them.

Some other plugins i recommend (those can be found at vim.org)

• A.vim (Toggle .c / .h files easily)
• EnhancedCommentify (Comment / Uncomment lines in many programming languages)
• NERDtree (IDE-style sidebar treeview)