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I don't believe it's possible to have a good vimrc without really grasping some elementary concepts like movements, operators, registers, windows etc. I have recently watched all the Drew Neil's VimCasts[1] and after just a couple of hours I've realized I was missing a lot for at least 10 years. There is also quite a good presentation on YouTube by Max Cantor "How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)"[2]. Instead of treating a single vimrc as the best one it's useful to skim through dotfiles and plugins of some influential vim users like Drew Neil[3] and Tim Pope[4]. BTW VimCasts are accompanied by a book. The second edition[5] includes changes introduced by Vim 8.0. [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2WjJbmmoM [3]: https://github.com/nelstrom/dotfiles [4]: https://github.com/tpope [5]: https

Yes. I've learned tons from the vim setups of individuals and from some vim "distributions". A rather non-exhaustive list of examples: Steve Losh's dotfiles: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src Drew Neil's dotfiles: https://github.com/nelstrom/dotfiles Tim Pope's vim plugins (the vim-* repos): https://github.com/tpope Kana Natsuno's vim plugins (the vim-* repos): https://github.com/kana spf13-vim distro: https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim Janus distro: https://github.com/carlhuda/janus I don't use any of these "stock" or consider them authoritative -- I've slowly cherry-picked from these and other sources to learn about patterns, plugins, tips, etc. Each source has its biases, implicit and sometimes explicitly documented. Those biases are usually a good thing as they reflect the workflows and customization needs of the authors. I w