On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 06:00 -0600, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello Gustin, > > Why did you set the following?: > > set noexpandtab >
This causes vim to use a tab character instead of a set of spaces. > Does that mean that you can not now use tab in Vim? > I use TAB all the time. It is just a different behaviour from the "stock" vim. > For ordinary text files like my daily agenda I like to have line wrap > working for long agenda items. And when line wrap was on it did not seem > to hurt the compilation of my C programs. > > I looked for .vimrc in both my /home directory and my /home/michael > directory and it did not seem to be there. The file .viminfo does seem > to be there. > > Should I create a .vimrc file containing the following? : > Yes. It is not created by default (on the distros I have used anyway). > syntax on > set wrap > set is > set nls > > I have left out the following on the previous list: > > set ignorecase (because C programming is case sensitive) > set noexpandtab( because I want line wrap to go to my last indentation). > You can also set the following: nmap <silent> <C-N> :silent noh<CR> What this does is map Ctrl-N to turn off your search highlighting, which I personally find annoying (hence the key mapping) Also, a useful tip is the "*". Pressing "*" will search for the word under the cursor. Like everyone else who learns about this I wish I had figured it out far earlier than I did. I periodically check http://www.vim.org/tips/ which is where I find some of this stuff. Cheers.
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