This minivimrc started its life as a very small vimrc I put together while working on a friend's dedicated server. Since then, it slowly became a sophisticated but compact vimrc that—with only a bit under 100 LOC—provides me many useful and opinionated improvements to Vim's defaults without depending on any third-party or perverting my favorite editor's philosophy and design.

One could think of it as a demonstration of what can be achieved with only a tiny bit of configuration.

Don't use it if you don't understand what's in there!

• filetype detection and syntax highlighting
• a minimal set of useful defaults
• automatic opening of the quickfix/location window
• easy spaces ↔︎ tabs manual switching
• mappings for juggling with files
• mappings for juggling with buffers
• mappings for juggling with definitions (definition-search, tags)
• mappings for juggling with matches (include-search)
• mappings for juggling with quickfix entries
• mappings for smoothing out search and replace
• mappings for smoothing out the use of list-like commands
• mappings for a better command-line
• mappings for a more intuitive completion menu
• a more useful :Grep command
• simplistic brace expansion
• small colorscheme tweaks