" Minimal .vimrc for production servers " Basic settings set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults syntax on " Enable syntax highlighting set background=light " Use light background " Disable all fancy colors, keep it simple highlight clear " Basic black and white scheme with minimal highlighting highlight Normal cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE highlight Comment cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkgray ctermbg=NONE highlight Constant cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkblue ctermbg=NONE highlight Special cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkblue ctermbg=NONE highlight Identifier cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE highlight Statement cterm=bold ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE highlight PreProc cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkblue ctermbg=NONE highlight Type cterm=bold ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE highlight Underlined cterm=underline ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE highlight Todo cterm=bold ctermfg=black ctermbg=yellow highlight Error cterm=bold ctermfg=white ctermbg=red highlight Search cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=yellow " UI elements highlight LineNr cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkgray ctermbg=NONE highlight StatusLine cterm=bold ctermfg=white ctermbg=darkgray highlight StatusLineNC cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=lightgray highlight VertSplit cterm=NONE ctermfg=darkgray ctermbg=NONE highlight Visual cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=lightgray " Practical settings for server work set number " Show line numbers set ruler " Show cursor position set laststatus=2 " Always show status line set showcmd " Show partial commands set showmatch " Show matching brackets set incsearch " Incremental search set hlsearch " Highlight search results set ignorecase " Case-insensitive search set smartcase " Unless search contains uppercase set autoindent " Auto-indent new lines set smartindent " Smart auto-indenting set tabstop=4 " Tab width is 4 spaces set shiftwidth=4 " Indent also with 4 spaces set expandtab " Expand tabs to spaces set nowrap " Don't wrap lines set backspace=indent,eol,start " Backspace through everything set wildmenu " Command-line completion set wildmode=list:longest " Complete until longest common string set history=50 " Keep 50 lines of command history set viminfo='20,\"50 " Remember 50 lines of registers set nobackup " No backup files set noswapfile " No swap files " Highlight trailing whitespace highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/ " Indicate insert/normal mode in the status line set showmode " For production servers - highlight the hostname in red if it contains 'live' let hostname = substitute(system('hostname'), '\n', '', '') if hostname =~ 'live' highlight User1 cterm=bold ctermfg=white ctermbg=red set statusline=%1*[PRODUCTION]%*\ %f\ %h%w%m%r\ %=%(%l,%c%V\ %=\ %P%) else set statusline=%f\ %h%w%m%r\ %=%(%l,%c%V\ %=\ %P%) endif