Make VIM more useful

• Set default vim encoding to UTF-8
• Boost commands and search patterns history: 1000 lines
• Boost undo levels: 1000 levels
• Enable file type detection

• Trigger file type specific plugins
• Indent based on file type syntax

• Enable tab completion menu: enter command text and press TAB button
• CTRL+A moves to start of line in command mode
• CTRL+E moves to end of line in command mode
• CTRL+C closes the command window
• Always report changes
• Highlight current line
• Highlight current column
• Show line numbers
• Hide unprintable characters
• Temporarily disable unprintable characters when entering insert mode
• Inverts display of unprintable characters
• Use visual bell instead of error bell
• Hide mouse pointer when typing
• Enable mouse in all modes
• Always show a status line
• Show partial command line (default)
• Disable the welcome screen
• Turn syntax highlighting on, when terminal has colors or in GUI
• Enable folding, fold based on syntax highlighting, start editing with all folds open
• Highlight SCM merge conflict markers
• Enable switching between buffers without saving
• Auto read files changed only from the outside of ViM
• Auto write changes if persistent undo is enabled
• Remove trailing spaces before saving
• Scroll slightly faster
• Move to first non-blank of the line when using PageUp/PageDown
• Move cursor wihout leaving insert mode
• Switch between windows by hitting twice
• Create a new tab command :tabnew
• Always show the current editing mode
• Insert only one space after '.', '?', '!' when joining lines
• Briefly jumps the cursor to the matching brace on insert
• Blink matching braces for 0.4s
• Allow the cursor to go everywhere (insert)
• Allow the cursor to go just past the end of line
• Allow the cursor to go everywhere (visual block)
• Allow backspacing over everything (insert)
• Insert spaces instead of tab, CTRL-V+Tab inserts a real tab
• Enable autoindenting
• CTRL-S saves file
• Always share the OS clipboard
• Auto-wrap comments using textwidth
• Auto-insert current comment leader, C-u to undo
• Exit from insert mode without cursor movement
• triggers completion in insert mode
• Change cursor to vertical bar in insert mode when using iTerm2
• Make dot work in visual mode
• Make v enter blockwise visual mode, and CTRL-V enter visual mode
• Wrap around when searching
• Show match results while typing search pattern
• Temporarily disable highlighting when entering insert mode
• Highlight all instances of the current word where the cursor is positioned
• Center screen on next/previous match, blink current match
• Checking spelling for English only

curl https://cdn.rawgit.com/hmphu/vimconfig/master/install | bash

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In 2016, PhuHM (@hmphu), http://hmphu.com

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