My Vim Configuration:

• Mono-spaced small font
• “Desert theme” with dark background, 256-color palette
• Some useful keyboard mappings
• Use spaces as tabs (2 spaces = 1 tab), Smart indentation
• Display line-numbers, Show matching braces
• Display all special characters
• Auto-completion
• Status-line modifications
• Syntax-checking upon saving for almost all languages (plugins, see below)
• File skeletons upon creation (plugins, see below)
• Ignore CVS-, temporary and images (etc) files and directories
• Disabled sounds

Vim plugins:

• Pathogen - Manage your 'runtimepath' with ease.
• Delimate – Automatic closing if brackets, quotes, paranteses etc.
• CloseTag – Automatic closing of HTML/XML tags.
• SuperTab – Auto-completion for text and symbols (Intellisense).
• Fugitive – Git wrapper.
• Tagbar – Tag listing.
• NERD Tree – File Browsing.
• ZenCoding – High-speed HTML and CSS coding helpers.
• Snipmate – TextMate snipplets for Vim.
• tSkeleton – File Templates and Code Skeletons/Snippets.
• Syntastic – Automatic syntax checking.