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Vim Configuration

My preferred default Vim configuration settings in ~/.vimrc

Setting Description
syntax on Turn on syntax highlighting
set number Turn on line number display
set hlsearch Turn on search highlight
set incsearch Turn on incremental search
set tabstop=4 Set tab stops to 4 spaces
set expandtab Replace tabs with spaces
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus Using default registers * and + copies to/from system clipboard
set ignorecase Set case-insensitve searches by default
set smartcase Set case-sensitive search if search keyword is a mix of upper/lowercase