What do you use to configure your editor?

I am usually in VIM for my editor. Not the graphical (gvim) version, the one that runs in the terminal.

I also use Carlhuda’s Janus configuration.

But there are things that I change that are simply minor things.

To do this, according to the documentation for customization, I use ~/.vimrc.after and here are my settings.

These are miscelanious things that I wanted to have. The relativenumber setting seems to not be as persistent as I would like though.

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set t_Co=256
set showcmd
set foldmethod=syntax
set wildmenu
set wildmode=list:longest
set virtualedit=all
set visualbell
set relativenumber
set wrap
set linebreak
set nolist
set textwidth=0
set wrapmargin=0

An abbreviation that I use pretty often.

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" rdt<space> does an autocompletion which gives me a rubydoctest
" comment block
iab rdt =begin<CR>doctest: <CR>>> <CR>=> <CR>=end<CR><Up><Up><Up>

This next line clears the highlights that happen when you search. For me, my leader is ,.

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nnoremap <leader><space> :noh<cr>

Add this in here if you really want to be enforced not to use the arrow keys. Enable it for a few days and pretty soon you just don’t reach for the arrow keys until you really need them.

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nnoremap <up> <nop>
nnoremap <down> <nop>
nnoremap <left> <nop>
nnoremap <right> <nop>
inoremap <up> <nop>
inoremap <down> <nop>
inoremap <left> <nop>
inoremap <right> <nop>

Well, there you have it. Most of my configuration file that I have in addtion to the Janus configuration.

What things do you have in your configuration that you really like to have? I am sure it is more exciting than mine!

The discussion starts here, but continues on this Google+ Post!