Biodegradable Geek

I have updated the vim page with my vimrc/gvimrc configs. Instead of repeating myself, I will quote some parts of the page ..

More details and the vim config itself here

I recommend turning backups on if you have them off. I personally hate having the ~ files all over my OS, so I keep them along with the .swp files in 1 backup dir in ~/.vim/

The programming language skeleton stuff will detect what files you are editing and change options in vim by inheriting the specified files which I put in ~/.vim/skeletons and ~/.vim/inherit.

The skeletons are automatically inserted in new files that vim is aware of. For example, in my own config, I have ~/.vim/inherit/c which has all the usual includes and int main() code. When I make a new C file (“gvim hello.c”), the new file begins with the skeleton code already present. Neat huh?

The inherit files can be used to set specific options for each language. This can mean different bindings, whitespace options, themes, etc depending on what language you’re working with, automatically.

See the vim page

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