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As another commenter already pointed out, a common pattern is for people to try such a configuration, and end up starting again from scratch because, frankly, it doesn't work for them.

Emphasis on "for them".

I'm not saying you shouldn't share your setup. I wouldn't have learned vim (or screen back in the day, or pine, or many others) if I didn't crib from the dotfiles of those before me.

But at some point, your setup becomes so customized to you that you're the only one it works for. And that's why vim and emacs, ancient editors, still exist -- they're stable and can be modernized and tailored to the user over time.

This writeup (not mine) I completely agree with: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/



Here's a similar post from me http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/04/09/getting-to-know-vim/

Starting from blank and building my own dotfiles is what did the trick for me. Using a big ass template actually made it more difficult.




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