Inspired by some of the comments in our Your Vim Tips! (in particular those by Mafinar and Hallski) …what’s in your .vimrc?
*If you’re using something like Janus, you’ll probably want to look in .gvimrc.after
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Here’s mine:
color Elixify
set guifont=Menlo:h12
set linespace=2
let g:NERDTreeWinPos = "right"
autocmd BufWinEnter * NERDTreeMirror
set guioptions-=T " Removes top toolbar
set guioptions-=r " Removes right hand scroll bar
set go-=L " Removes left hand scroll bar
autocmd User Rails let b:surround_{char2nr('-')} = "<% \r %>" " displays <% %> correctly
set cpoptions+=$ " puts a $ marker for the end of words/lines in cw/c$ commands
let mapleader="," " Change mapleader from \ to ,
"autocmd BufWritePre *.rb :%s/\s\+$//e
autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
set shortmess+=A " removes swap file warnings
"Better window navigation
nnoremap <C-j> <C-w>j
nnoremap <C-k> <C-w>k
nnoremap <C-h> <C-w>h
nnoremap <C-l> <C-w>l
set splitbelow
set splitright
inoremap jk <esc>
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I haven’t touched it for like forever. Not a good example either, but it is well attuned to my muscle memory.
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This just showed up in a News Alert thread - think I might use a few of them 
set hlsearch " highlight all search results
set ignorecase " do case insensitive search
set incsearch " show incremental search results as you type
set number " display line number
set noswapfile " disable swap file
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I’m in the middle of the process of changing my editor for VIM, and it’s a good choice? Yes, for sure… and I will sneak around other .vimrc in this post to get some ideas to complete my .vimrc!
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I started off with (and still use) Janus however some people are not keen on the idea. Personally I think if you’re just starting out they can be a great way to get into Vim 
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This is a plugin found after stumbling over the feature in Doom Emacs and wanted to have the same functionality in Vim.
It gives a visual feedback to what you just yanked so that you can verify that you got it correctly.
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I use Neovim. Here’s the stuff not specific to Neovim or plugins.
" Enable 24bit true color
set termguicolors
" Enable the theme
syntax enable
colorscheme rigel
set noshowmode
set cursorline
" Setup code folding
set foldmethod=indent
set foldlevel=99
set foldcolumn=1
" A little mourse never hurt anyone
set mouse=a
" Display relative line numbers, with absolute line number for current line
set number
set numberwidth=5
set relativenumber
" Open new split panes to right and below
set splitright
set splitbelow
" Configure backspace so it acts as it should act
set backspace=eol,start,indent
set whichwrap+=<,>,h,l
set ignorecase " Ignore case when searching
set smartcase " When searching try to be smart about cases
set hlsearch " Highlight search results
set incsearch " Makes search act like search in modern browsers
set lazyredraw " Don't redraw while executing macros (good performance config)
set magic " For regular expressions turn magic on
set expandtab " Use spaces instead of tabs
set smarttab " Be smart when using tabs ;)
" 1 tab == 2 spaces
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=2
" Linebreak on 500 characters
set lbr
set tw=500
set ai " Auto indent
set si " Smart indent
set wrap " Wrap lines
set history=500 " Sets how many lines of history VIM has to remember
set hidden
" Enable filetype plugins
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
" Set to auto read when a file is changed from the outside
set autoread
au FocusGained,BufEnter * checktime
" Map leader to comma
let mapleader = ","
" Fast saving
nmap <leader>w :w!<cr>
" Map Esc to tn
inoremap tn <Esc>
" Useful mappings for managing tabs
map <leader>tn :tabnew<cr>
map <leader>to :tabonly<cr>
map <leader>tc :tabclose<cr>
map <leader>tm :tabmove<cr>
map <leader>t<leader> :tabnext<cr>
" Let 'tl' toggle between this and the last accessed tab
let g:lasttab = 1
nmap <Leader>pp :exe "tabn ".g:lasttab<CR>
au TabLeave * let g:lasttab = tabpagenr()
" Turn terminal to normal mode with escape
tnoremap tn <C-\><C-n>
" Moving lines
nnoremap <A-Down> :m .+1<CR>==
nnoremap <A-Up> :m .-2<CR>==
inoremap <A-Down> <Esc>:m .+1<CR>==gi
inoremap <A-Up> <Esc>:m .-2<CR>==gi
vnoremap <A-Down> :m '>+1<CR>gv=gv
vnoremap <A-Up> :m '<-2<CR>gv=gv
" Visual mode pressing * or # searches for the current selection
" Super useful! From an idea by Michael Naumann
vnoremap <silent> * :<C-u>call VisualSelection('', '')<CR>/<C-R>=@/<CR><CR>
vnoremap <silent> # :<C-u>call VisualSelection('', '')<CR>?<C-R>=@/<CR><CR>
function! CmdLine(str)
call feedkeys(":" . a:str)
endfunction
function! VisualSelection(direction, extra_filter) range
let l:saved_reg = @"
execute "normal! vgvy"
let l:pattern = escape(@", "\\/.*'$^~[]")
let l:pattern = substitute(l:pattern, "\n$", "", "")
if a:direction == 'gv'
call CmdLine("Ack '" . l:pattern . "' " )
elseif a:direction == 'replace'
call CmdLine("%s" . '/'. l:pattern . '/')
endif
let @/ = l:pattern
let @" = l:saved_reg
endfunction
" Press Space to turn off highlighting and clear any message already displayed.
:nnoremap <silent> <Space> :nohlsearch<Bar>:echo<CR>
" Elixir preferences
let g:mix_format_on_save = 1
" Keep syntax highlighting in sync in larger React files
autocmd BufEnter *.{js,jsx,ts,tsx} :syntax sync fromstart
autocmd BufLeave *.{js,jsx,ts,tsx} :syntax sync clea
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