Motivation

Everytime when we use vi editor, it is annoying that the keys is not working the way we expect. It is becuase of default settings and ad-hoc user settings. Its good idea to have standard vi setting that works for all in shared accounts or our own user specific settings.

Favoirite .vimrc

set nocompatible
set number
syntax on
set ruler
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent
set smartindent

Quick Commands

Sometimes we are in shared account, we should not change default settings with our own .vimrc to polute standards. But we can quickly enable the settings which we need at the time of needs. Here are some example

:set nu - Show line numbers :set nocompatible - To make the arrow keys to work