Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.
You've got two main options:
| syntax on | |
| set ruler " Show the line and column numbers of the cursor. | |
| set formatoptions+=o " Continue comment marker in new lines. | |
| set textwidth=0 " Hard-wrap long lines as you type them. | |
| set modeline " Enable modeline. | |
| set esckeys " Cursor keys in insert mode. | |
| set linespace=0 " Set line-spacing to minimum. | |
| set nojoinspaces " Prevents inserting two spaces after punctuation on a join (J) | |
| " More natural splits | |
| set splitbelow " Horizontal split below current. |