Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

Configuring vim

Editing the command line is often a must and is part of a developer's everyday life. Setting up common options that make life easier in the editor give us the reliability and consistency we need, a little like scripting itself. We will set some useful options in the vi or vim editor file, $HOME/.vimrc.

The options we set are detailed in the following list:

• set showmode: Ensures we see when we are in insert mode
• set nohlsearch: Does not highlight the words that we have searched for
• set autoindent: We indent our code often; this allows us to return to the last indent level rather than the start of a new line on each line break
• set tabstop=4: Sets a tab to be four spaces
• set expandtab: Converts tabs to spaces, which is useful ...