vimrc settings

Oct 7

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Located in ~/.vimrc

If it doesn’t exist, create it!

set smartindent
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab

"enables mouse in all modes. supports click and scrollwheel. use shift+ins to paste from clipboard
set mouse=a

"for use with pathogen
syntax enable
filetype plugin indent on

"for use with solarized. may require export TERM=xterm-256color
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

To see more info on these settings, from within vim:

:help smartindent

To format a file with mixed tabs and spaces, after applying the above settings, from within vim:

:%retab

About Ronnie Diaz

Ronnie Diaz is a software engineer and tech consultant. Ronnie started his career in front-end and back-end development for companies in ecommerce, service industries and remote education. This work transitioned from traditional desktop client-server applications through early cloud development. Software included human resource management and service technician workflows, online retail e-commerce and electronic ordering and fulfillment, IVR customer relational systems, and video streaming remote learning SCORM web applications. Hands on server experience and software performance optimization led to creation of a startup business focused on collocated data center services and continued experience with video streaming hardware and software. This led to a career in Amazon Prime Video where Ronnie is currently employed, building software and systems which stream live sports and events for millions of viewers around the world.

Posted on October 7, 2014, in Programming & Development and tagged , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.

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