Here's my minimal settings with comments:
"2022-11-22 set nocompatible " disable Vi compatibility set autoread " reload on external file changes set backspace=indent,eol,start " backspace behaviour set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus " enable clipboard set encoding=utf8 " enable utf8 support set fileformats=unix,dos,mac " EOL type to be detected set hidden " hide buffers, don't close set nowrap " disable wrapping set number " show line numbers set cursorline " find the current line quickly set ruler " show cursor position in status bar set term=xterm-256color " terminal type set wildmenu wildmode=longest:full,full " wildmode settings set listchars=eol:¶,trail:•,tab:▸\ " whitespace characters set scrolloff=999 " center cursor position vertically set showbreak=¬\ " Wrapping character set showmatch " show matching brackets set autoindent expandtab " autoindentation & tabbing set shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 tabstop=2 " 1 tab = 2 spaces set hlsearch ignorecase incsearch smartcase " search options set nobackup noswapfile nowritebackup " disable backup/swap files set undofile undodir=~/.vim/undo undolevels=9999 " undo options set lazyredraw " enable lazyredraw set nocursorline " disable cursorline set ttyfast " enable fast terminal connection let mapleader=',' " leader key syntax on " enable syntax highlighting filetype plugin indent on " enable filetype detection autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.tt setf tt2html " enable TT2 filetype detect autocmd ColorScheme * highlight Normal ctermbg=NONE colorscheme onedark
