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Initial Settings : Vim Settings2021/02/19

 
There are many cases to use text editor on CUI terminal, so it's more convenient to install editors with advanced features like Vim.
[1] Install Vim on this example.
[root@dlp ~]#
dnf -y install vim-enhanced

[2] Set command alias for your own environment.
But for users that has UID 201 or higher, Alias is already set by [/etc/profile.d/vim.sh] file that is included in [vim-enhanced] package.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi ~/.bashrc
# add alias to the end

alias vi='vim'
# apply changes

[root@dlp ~]#
source ~/.bashrc
[3] Configure Vim for each user environment. (common settings for all users are in [/etc/vimrc])
[root@dlp ~]#
vi ~/.vimrc
" use extended function of vim (no compatible with vi)

set nocompatible
" specify character encoding

set encoding=utf-8
" specify file encoding

set fileencodings=utf-8
" specify file formats

set fileformats=unix,dos
" take backup

" opposite is [ set nobackup ]

set backup
" specify backup directory

set backupdir=~/backup
" take 50 search histories

set history=50
" ignore Case

set ignorecase
" distinct Capital if you mix it in search words

set smartcase
" highlights matched words

" opposite is [ set nohlsearch ]

set hlsearch
" use incremental search

" opposite is [ set noincsearch ]

set incsearch
" show line number

" opposite is [ set nonumber ]

set number
" visualize break ( $ ) or tab ( ^I )

set list
" highlights parentheses

set showmatch
" not insert LF at the end of file

set binary noeol
" set auto indent

" opposite is [ noautoindent ]

set autoindent
" show color display

" opposite is [ syntax off ]

syntax on
" change colors for comments if [ syntax on ] is set

highlight Comment ctermfg=LightCyan
" wrap lines

" opposite is [ set nowrap ]

set wrap
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