Chapter 9: Vi IMproved





Use VimCFG

 Wether to enable a custom Vim Configuaration,
 managed by BashStyle-NG

Backup files:

 Wether to backup files or not (creates filename~ upon save)

Jump back to last position

 When exiting a file, remember the cursor position
 and go there when the same file is opened again

Enable Filetype Indention

 Load Indention rules according to the detected filetype

Display (partial) command

 Display (parts) of Vim Commands which you currently
 typing in the command line

Hilight matching brackets

 Hilight brackets when they are closed. eg.: Vim will
 hilight the ( if the ) has been typed in

Enable syntax hilighting

 Hilight special words or syntaxes in different colors
 rule depends on the detected filetype

Bash has dark background

 Set wether your terminal has a bright or a dark background
 Vim will then change the syntax hilighting colors accordingly
 to what king of background your terminal has, for better readability

Match caseinsensitively

 When doing searches, don't care about upper and lower case

Match case smartly

 Do smart case matching while searching

Enable incremental search

 Do incremental searches. This means if you search for "setup" it will immediately jump
 to what you type: "s" then "se" then "set" then "setu" then "setup", instead of waiting for the full word

Highlight matches

 Wether to highlight search results or not

Display line numbers

 Wether to display linen umbers at the left

Autosave files

 Wether to autosave before executing commands like :next or :exit

Highlight current line

 Wether to highlight the current line by underlining it, or not

Display the ruler

 Wether to display a ruler a the bottom, which displays informations
 In BS_NGs Setup this are: filename [filetype] column current-line/all-lines percent-of-lines%

Choose a colorscheme

 Choose a different color scheme. Set to "default" for using the system-wide default, or fallback

Rulerformat

 Here you can change the content of the ruler.
 Default is %45(%t\ %y\ %c\ %l\/%L\ %p%%%)
 %t - is the filename without path
 %y - is the filetype
 %c - is the number of current column
 %l - is the number of current line
 %L - is the total number of lines
 %p - is the percentage of file
 Where are much more - see VIM-Doc.