VIM: Vi IMproved
Since I don't want to join the editor religious war I'm not going to tell you where to find information about the cult of vi.
This is my ~/.vimrc for VIM.
" " ~/.vimrc " " Configuration file for vim " " Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> " "set bg=dark " Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next " line enables syntax highlighting by default. syntax on " The following are commented out as they cause vim to behave a lot " different from regular vi. They are highly recommended though. set showcmd " Show (partial) command in status line. set showmatch " Show matching brackets. set ignorecase " Do case insensitive matching set incsearch " Incremental search set autowrite " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make