Vim

.vimrc is a classic Vim config. The installer copies it to ~/.vimrc, but doesn’t install Vim itself (sudo apt install vim or brew install vim). For Neovim, see Neovim.

Colour scheme

Vim uses Sublime Monokai. It’s included in the repo (.vim/colors/sublimemonokai.vim, MIT licence) and the installer copies it to ~/.vim/colors/, so there’s nothing to download.

If you copy only .vimrc to a machine, without the colour scheme file, Vim falls back to the built-in habamax (Vim 9+) or desert (older Vims) instead of showing an error.

Settings

Area	Settings
Display	line numbers, cursor position, window title, wrapped lines, 2-line command area, status line always on
Width	window 120 columns wide, guide line at column 90
Indent	tabs, shown 4 wide; YAML gets 2 spaces (YAML doesn’t allow tabs). Auto and smart indent, follows file type (filetype indent on)
Mouse	on (mouse=a)
Search	highlight matches, search as you type, ignore case unless you type a capital
Folding	fold column on, {{{ }}} markers, everything open when a file loads
History	1000 commands, 1000 undo levels, hidden buffers
Encoding	UTF-8
Auto-reload	files changed outside Vim reload when the cursor stops moving

Edge cases

• set columns=120 resizes the terminal window in some terminals (or does nothing in others). Remove it if Vim fights your window size.
• set t_Co=256 forces 256 colours; on very old terminals colours may look wrong.
• set number, set ruler and syntax on appear twice — harmless duplicates.
• Same indent in all three editors: Vim, nano and Neovim all indent with tabs, shown 4 wide.