- I have been using vim for a sometime and haven't had used ~/.vimrc for configurations<p>- I see many code samples on Github, but don't actually understand where they came from and what they mean<p>- I want to start all fresh and understand them, write my own .vimrc configuration and extend it<p>- Please tell me where shall I start
<a href="http://vimbits.com/" rel="nofollow">http://vimbits.com/</a><p><a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki" rel="nofollow">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki</a><p>Your .vimrc is essentially just going to be a collection of snippets that you've found that seem to do some good. Many of mine have been taken from other people's dotfiles, from dotfile projects such as<p><a href="http://skwp.github.com/dotfiles/#section-13-1" rel="nofollow">http://skwp.github.com/dotfiles/#section-13-1</a><p>and from the sites above. Take a look at the .vimrc of people you might know on github, for example. Here's mine, it's fairly well commented:<p><a href="https://github.com/russfrank/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/russfrank/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc</a>