Re: Changing the defaults with Vim 8

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> > set backspace=indent,eol,start
>
> +1
>
> > set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
>
> Why only 50?

Good point, the Vim default already is 50. That changed a while back.
How about 200?

> And while we are it, increase the undolevels setting

The default already is 1000. A higher value is mainly useful in
combination with 'undofile', but we don't want to set that.

> > set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
> > set showcmd " display incomplete commands
> > set incsearch " do incremental searching
> > " Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
> > map Q gq
> >
> > " In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it.
> > if has('mouse')
> > set mouse=a
> > endif
>
> don't care.
>
> > if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
> > syntax on
> > set hlsearch
>
> please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying.

Well, I find it useful. But I suppose that's more a personal
preference.

> > if has("autocmd")
> > " Enable file type detection.
> > filetype plugin indent on
>
> +1
>
> >
> > augroup vimrcEx
> > au!
> >
> > " For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
> > autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78
>
> Isn't text a fallback, that is used, when no other type is found? I
> wouldn't set this one then.

No, but it can trigger quite often. I suppose this is too arbitrary.

>
> > " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
> > " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
> > " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
> > autocmd BufReadPost *
> > \ if line("'\"") >= 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
> > \ exe "normal! g`\"" |
> > \ endif
>
> +1
>
> > Probably not:
> >
> > " these two leave files behind
> > set backup
> > set undofile
> >
> > " may conflict with a user mapping
> > inoremap <C-U> <C-G>u<C-U>
> >
> > " hard to revert
> > if has('syntax') && has('eval')
> > packadd matchit
> > endif
>
> +1 for not setting those. although I would still make <c-u> in insert
> mode undoable.

OK.

> some more I would set, the mentioned
> :set display+=lastline

As mentioned, I don't use it myself, I expect long time Vi/Vim users to
be surprised if this changes.

> :set nrformat-=octal (often does unexpected things, when the user does
> not expect it)

OK.

> and possibly also:
> :set laststatus=2

That takes an extra line from the screen. I suppose it's useful if you
have a plugin for a super status line.

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