I've been vimming a lot recently yet I haven't given any vim tips for an eternity.
With this in .vimrc/_vimrc:
set numberwidth=5 set numbers
vim shows line numbers on each line. I've held out against this for years but now I'm using >= 22" widescreen monitors I am converted.
The only problem is when I am vimming over an ssh tunnel (which I do a lot to maintain PetersBlogger) and I want to copy and paste: the pasted stuff includes the line numbers. When this crops up I do
:nonumber
to turn it off (kinda like doing a :noautoindent before pasting indented code).
UPDATE: this is even better if the background of the line numbers is changed so you can clearly see the gutter they are in:
:color murphy :hi LineNr guifg=white guibg=darkgreen :hi LineNr ctermfg=white ctermbg=darkgreen
Peter's Moblog
When i was at uni a had an awesome VIM config, i've lost it though :(
I remember i had: set nowrap syntax on set ruler set showcmd
And a bunch of others. A quick google search turned up daniel-werner.info/vimrc.html which seems decent enough. Will have to give it a try. I remember the rest of the uni was taught pico.. ughhh..