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ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009

astr0man posted:

Absolute basics
Return to normal mode, and navigate to the start of the word. In normal mode, the w and b move the cursor forward and backward by one word at a time respectively. Place the cursor on the start of the word rtmacs, and still in insert mode type x.

I think that should refer to normal mode.

All these nice .vimrc files are great but I interact with about 10 servers daily and 8 of them only have vi installed (with no possibility of installing vim). Does anyone have a nice example of a .vimrc/.exrc combo?

For me it's just:

code:

.exrc:
set number

.vimrc:
@source .exrc

Since I haven't been bothered to set up something fancy.

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ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009

My .vimrc/.exrc combo is slightly more complex now that I had some motivation to do it. One thing I'm wondering though is is there any danger to using map! in this way?

code:

.exrc
  1 set number
  2
  3 set autoindent
  4
  5 set hardtabs=2
  6 set tabstop=2
  7 set shiftwidth=2
  8
  9 map! <tab> <space><space>

.vimrc
  1 source $HOME/.exrc
  2 unmap! <tab>
  3
  4 nnoremap <leader>ev :split $MYVIMRC<cr>
  5 nnoremap <leader>sv :source $MYVIMRC<cr>
  6
  7 syntax on
  8
  9 set expandtab
 10 set smartindent
 11
 12 colorscheme wombat

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 02:32

ephphatha: Dec 18, 2009

Civil Twilight posted:

Is there a reason to do that when you have expandtab set?

vi doesn't have an expandtab option.

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