I'm a fan of vim. I cursed at it for 2 years before I loved it, but I wouldn't want any other editor anymore. However, I do require a few changes to the default behaviour of vim before it suits my needs when I'm doing PHP development.
Here's my current ~/.vimrc file I use.
" Vim configuration file " No more "vi" compatibility set nocompatible " General vim stuff filetype plugin on filetype indent on syntax on set nowrap " Default color colorscheme desert " I don't want those .swp files cluttering up my normal directories " Gets very messy with version control " So store them in a seperate directory set directory=~/.vim/swap-files,~/tmp,. " VCL stuff, for editing Varnish files au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vcl :set ft=vcl au! Syntax vcl source ~/.vim/syntax/vcl.vim " Parse the php-fpm.conf file as a dosini autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/php-fpm.conf set syntax=dosini " Show nice info in ruler set ruler set laststatus=2 " Set standard setting for PEAR coding standards set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab " Auto indenting is just so nice set autoindent set smartindent " When searching in vim, make sure the search hit is never at the bottom set scrolloff=5 " This setting hurts you the most when first starting with vim: disable the arrowkeys. For navigation, use "hjkl" " You'll probably want to disable these when first using vim. nnoremap <up> <nop> nnoremap <down> <nop> nnoremap <left> <nop> nnoremap <right> <nop> inoremap <up> <nop> inoremap <down> <nop> inoremap <left> <nop> inoremap <right> <nop> vnoremap <up> <nop> vnoremap <down> <nop> vnoremap <left> <nop> vnoremap <right> <nop> " Source/reload .vimrc after saving .vimrc autocmd bufwritepost .vimrc source $MYVIMRC " Increase the history buffer for undo'ing mistakes set history=1000 set undolevels=1000 " Enable at least 256 colors instead of the default 8 (I think?) set t_Co=256
I also using the Varnish VCL syntax highlighting plugin provided by Steven Merril.