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13 Vim Options ¶

Basic ¶

Setting: use_vimcfg ¶

This master switch will make BashStyle-NG adjust the Settings for Vim.

Setting: vim_backup ¶

If enabled vim will backup files to filename~ upon write.

Editing ¶

Setting: jump_back Jump back to last position ¶

When opening a file again, vim will jump back to the previous position.

Setting: filetype_indent Enable filetype indention ¶

If enabled vim will use indention based on determined file type.

Setting: show_command Display (partial) command ¶

If enabled vim will display (partially) typed in commands in the ruler.

Setting: highlight_brackets Highlight matching brackets ¶

If enabled vim will highlight matching brackets, when the cursor is positioned at either of them.

Setting: syntax_hilight Enable syntax highlighting ¶

Enable vim syntax highlighting.

Setting: dark_background Bash has dark background ¶

Determines whether the shell has dark background or not

Setting: start_line Jump to start of line ¶

If enabled many jump commands move the cursor to the first non-blank character of a line.

Setting: wrap_line Wrap long lines ¶

Wrap long lines exceeding wrap_length.

Setting: wrap_length Autowrap position ¶

At what length long lines should be wraped

Setting: tab_length tabstop length ¶

Length of a tabulator in spaces.

Setting: expandtab Expand tab to spaces ¶

If enabled, tabulators will be expanded to spaces.

Setting: autosave ¶

If enabled, files will be automatically written when leaving a modified buffer.

Search ¶

Setting: ignore_case Match case-insensitively ¶

If enabled, searches will be perfmored case-insensitively.

Setting: smart_case ¶

If enabled, it will override ignore_case when a pattern has upper case characters.

Setting: incremental_search Enable incremental search ¶

If enabled vim will perform incremental searches, rather than waiting for the user to finish typing an accepting the search string.

Setting: highlight_matches ¶

If enabled vim will highlight all matches in the current file.

Folding ¶

Setting: foldenable Enable folding large code ¶

If enabled vim will allow to temporarily collapse or expand blocks of code.

Setting: foldlevelstart Code level to start folding at ¶

folds with a level higher than this number will be closed.

Setting: foldnestmax Maximum nested foldings ¶

Maximum fold depth for when foldmethod is indent or syntax.

Setting: foldmethod By default fold based upon ¶

The method used to determine whether to fold large code blocks.

Misc. ¶

Setting: show_lineno Display line numbers ¶

Display line numbers.

Setting: chdir Go into file’s directory ¶

Go into file’s directory.

Setting: highlight_line Highlight current line ¶

Highlight current line.

Setting: wildmenu Display possible completions ¶

Display possible completion.

Setting: highlight_column Highlight current column ¶

Highlight current column.

Setting: ruler Display the ruler ¶

Display a customizeable ruler at the bottom.

Setting: rulerformat rulerformat ¶

Customize vim’s ruler.