Comment by johncoltrane | Hacker News Reader

Comment by johncoltrane | Hacker News Reader

And again and again… nice of you to show the world your (friend's?) crappy repo. I'm sure that you have the next YADR or SPF13 or Janus, here.

1. The repo is filled with .DS_Store files. That's the very definition of "best". Not.

2. set nocompatible is useless.

3. What's up with line 3 of the .vimrc?

4. What's up with that mismatch between long and short versions of settings names? Why set nu instead of set number and set timeoutlen instead of set tm? Is that really "The Best Vim Configuration You've seen"?

5. What's up with all the duplicated settings (some with different values)? Why do they have short and long names?

6. "first disable the s key because its better to use c for everything anyways". Really?

7. Why only three buffer switching plugins?

8. Oh wait! You only have two. Then why did you keep the settings for an old one in your .vimrc?

Seriously…

I guess I should clarify - It's not the prettiest vimrc and could use some cleaning up with regards to the formatting, but I've been looking around a lot of ppls configurations, and this one has the coolest collection of useful little mappings and scripts (plugins are plugins so I guess they dont count).

You seem to know what you're talking about -- Do you have any other resources you think I should take a look at to improve my own config?

You shouldn't take a look at anyone's config. When you spot a problem or limitation in your config, google a bit, read the documentation and improve your config.

Your config is yours, not his: his custom mappings and functions and plugins may or may not be sensible or improve or even fit in your workflow.

Add to that the clear fact that the guy doesn't seem to know what he is doing… seriously, that comment about s is just dumb.

set nocompatible is a red flag, look for it!

I love seeing vim configs as much as the next guy, but pulling someone else's entire config like this is like wearing a custom suit tailored for someone else.

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