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+title: "Personal sane Vim defaults"
+url: /apersonal-sane-vim-defaults.html
+date: 2023-11-07T01:04:28+02:00
+type: note
+draft: false
+---
+
+I have found many "sane" default configs on the net and this is my favorite
+personal list. This is how my `.vimrc` file looks like.
+
+```vimrc
+" General sane defaults.
+syntax enable
+colorscheme sorbet
+nnoremap q: <nop>
+set nocompatible
+set relativenumber
+set nohlsearch
+set smartcase
+set ignorecase
+set incsearch
+set autoindent
+set nowrap
+set nobackup
+set noswapfile
+set autoread
+set wildmenu
+set encoding=utf8
+set backspace=2
+set scrolloff=4
+set spelllang=en_us
+
+" Status Line enhancements.
+set laststatus=2
+set statusline=%f%m%=%y\ %{strlen(&fenc)?&fenc:'none'}\ %l:%c\ %L\ %P
+hi StatusLine cterm=NONE ctermbg=black ctermfg=brown
+hi StatusLineNC cterm=NONE ctermbg=black ctermfg=darkgray
+
+" Commenting blocks of code.
+augroup commenting_blocks_of_code
+  autocmd!
+  autocmd FileType c,cpp,go,scala   let b:comment_leader = '// '
+  autocmd FileType sh,ruby,python   let b:comment_leader = '# '
+  autocmd FileType conf,fstab       let b:comment_leader = '# '
+  autocmd FileType lua              let b:comment_leader = '-- '
+  autocmd FileType vim              let b:comment_leader = '" '
+augroup END
+noremap <silent> ,cc :<C-B>silent <C-E>s/^/<C-R>=escape(b:comment_leader,'\/')<CR>/<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
+noremap <silent> ,cu :<C-B>silent <C-E>s/^\V<C-R>=escape(b:comment_leader,'\/')<CR>//e<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
+
+" Language specific indentation.
+filetype plugin indent on
+autocmd Filetype make,go,c,cpp setlocal noexpandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4
+autocmd Filetype html,js,css setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2
+```
+
+I keep it pretty vanilla so this is about everything I have in the file.
+