A minimal vimrc for new vim users

" A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with. " " Referenced here: http://vimuniversity.com/samples/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty " " Original Author: Bram Moolenaar Bram@vim.org " Made more minimal by: Ben Orenstein " Modified by : Ben McCormick " Last change: 2014 June 8 " " To use it, copy it to " for Unix based systems (including OSX and Linux): ~/.vimrc " for Windows : $VIM_vimrc " " If you don't understand a setting in here, just type ':h setting'.

" Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings (much better!). " This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect. set nocompatible

" Make backspace behave in a sane manner. set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Switch syntax highlighting on syntax on

" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting. filetype plugin indent on

" Show line numbers set number

" Allow hidden buffers, don't limit to 1 file per window/split set hidden