" examples of .exrc settings that make Vim more useful for me." use them if you want; skip them if you don't like them."" set it so that return and minus move up and down a line without" insisting on moving to the start of the line. yes, i'm one of" those old-fashioned people who like space, backspace, -, and return" better than hjkl."map
map - "" do text wrapping on a control-Q. since it annoys me to have text" wrap automatically, but I want it to wrap when I give the command," the macro sets the textwidth, wraps the current paragraph, then" sets it back to text wrap being off."map :set textwidth=75
{jQ}:set textwidth=0
"" make it so that we can backspace beyond the start of the insertion" and beyond the current line"set backspace=2"" set the default font and size to monaco-9. it's already the" default, but this is supposed to be an illustration of how to" set it to something different."set term=monacoset term=9"" similarly, set the window size to the standard size. you can use" whatever numbers you like."set lines=25set columns=80"" set the tabs and shifts to something a bit less wide" than the standard 8-characters"set tabstop=4set shiftwidth=4"" keep me from accidentally hitting = when I meant -" = doesn't do anything useful in the mac version anyway."map = -"" allow screen refreshes even while inserting"map! a"" make all the extended ASCII characters show up as themselves"set graphic"" get rid of the backup files. this is the most controversial" of the lot..."set nobackup
