This minivimrc started its life as a very small vimrc I put together while working on a friend's dedicated server. Since then, it slowly became a sophisticated but compact vimrc that—with only a bit under 100 LOC—provides me many useful and opinionated improvements to Vim's defaults without depending on any third-party or perverting my favorite editor's philosophy and design.
One could think of it as a demonstration of what can be achieved with only a tiny bit of configuration.
Don't use it if you don't understand what's in there!
- filetype detection and syntax highlighting
- a minimal set of useful defaults
- automatic opening of the quickfix/location window
- easy spaces ↔︎ tabs manual switching
- mappings for juggling with files
- mappings for juggling with buffers
- mappings for juggling with definitions (definition-search, tags)
- mappings for juggling with matches (include-search)
- mappings for juggling with quickfix entries
- mappings for smoothing out search and replace
- mappings for smoothing out the use of list-like commands
- mappings for a better command-line
- mappings for a more intuitive completion menu
- a more useful :Grep command
- simplistic brace expansion
- small colorscheme tweaks