Newbie guide to vim run commands – the ~/.vimrc config

Don't be overwhelmed! Keep it simple!

00:00 vim is everywhere
00:42 neovim has better defaults
01:39 the .vimrc file
02:10 Setup a spell checker
03:25 Show whitespace
04:18 Setup persistent undo history
05:21 Clear up trailing whitespace
06:04 Setup Control+Backspace to kill last word
09:06 Conclusion tl;dw

[keithcheung]

This video is actually super useful for newbie

[JDStone]

Awesome! I have been wanting that whitespace killer for a year or two!

[taektaek]

It's really cool!
undofile will help me a lot :)
thanks!

[hijacked]

cheers, happy to see you followed through with this!! will be checking out your vimrc when i get the chance. feel like mine is more bloated than vim itself, how do you keep it tidy arghh
now just a heads up, nvim supports eof in set list, to get rid of the ~ characters past the buffer

[franciscoarriba]

hey kai! haha how did you get to always show the left pointer on firefox? i know how to do it on st but not on other programs

[CharlesTheKid]

Was wondering if you have any opinions on the coc.vim intellisense engine plugin? Great video as always, thanks!

[willson]

I do something similar with white space removal, I also use marks to keep the cursor position.

[Murr]

do these config settings work for vim or only nvim ? thanks

[jacekmigacz]

Correctly set alias is `alias vim='emacsclient -t'`.