VIM: tips and tricks#

List of commands for setting up VIM#

NOTE : you can run this commands inside VIM with a “:” in the beginning OR store these commands in (.vimrc) in your home folder.

Source:

  1. show line number

set number

  1. enable syntax highlighting

syntax on

  1. enable auto indentation

set autoindent

  1. for fortran f90 files

let b:fortran_fixed_source=0

  1. replacing tab with white space: When you insert tabs into your codes and save it and send it to someone else, he/she must use the same tab size as you did. Otherwise, the code would look very ugly.

set expandtab

  1. set cursor lines and columns

set cursorline
set cursorcolumn

This is how it looks like: