My Vim Setup on Windows

I have been slowing teaching myself how to use vi/vim for quite some time now. I have been using a Visual Studio plugin called ViEmu and I have also been using MacVim some on my Mac. A few days ago I decided to also install gVim and use it on windows in situations where I don’t need the overhead of Visual Studio.

I am using this post to document how I setup gVim for use on my windows machine. Below are the settings I have added to the _vimrc file:

Here is the documentation on where they came from:

Fonts

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI

Tabs and Spaces

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Converting_tabs_to_spaces

Line Endings

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/799417/gvim-showing-carriage-return-m-even-when-file-mode-is-explicitly-dos
• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format

Color Scheme

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1891
• https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk

No backup

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2197749/gvim-on-windows-way-to-disable-the-tmp-file-cretion

Line Numbers

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Display_line_numbers