Chapter 9: Vi IMproved

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9.1 Use VimCFG

 Let BS-NG take care of VIms configuration.

9.2 Backup files:

 Create backup files (<filename>~) when saving.

9.3 Jump back to last position

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

9.4 Enable Filetype Indention

 Load indention rules according to the detected filetype.

9.5 Display (partial) command

 Display (parts) of VIm Commands which you currently
 are typing in the command line.

9.6 Hilight matching brackets

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

9.7 Enable syntax hilighting

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

9.8 Bash has dark background

 VIm will change the colors accordingly, for better readability.

9.9 Match caseinsensitively

 Don't care about upper and lower case while searching.

9.10 Match case smartly

 Do smart case matching while searching.

9.11 Enable incremental search

 Do incremental searches.

9.12 Highlight matches

 Highlight search results.

9.13 Display line numbers

 Display line numbers at the left.

9.14 Autosave files

 Autosave file before executing commands like :next or :exit.

9.15 Highlight current line

 Highlight the current line by underlining it.

9.16 Display the ruler

 Display a ruler a the bottom, which displays various informations.

9.17 Choose a colorscheme

 Set to "default" for using the system-wide default.

 (Note: not all themes work with Vim, some are for GVim.)

9.18 Rulerformat

 Here you can change the content of the ruler.
 BS-NGs default is: %45(%t\ %y\ %c\ %l\/%L\ %p%%%)
 Where are much more - see VIM-Doc.