Chapter 9: Vi IMproved

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Use VimCFG

 When enabled, BS-NG takes care of VIms configuration.

Backup files:

 When enabled, backup files to <filename>~.

Jump back to last position

 When enabled and exiting a file, remember the cursor position
 and go there when the same file is opened again.

Enable Filetype Indention

 When enabled, load indention rules according to the detected filetype.

Display (partial) command

 When enabled, display (parts) of VIm Commands which you currently
 are typing in the command line.

Hilight matching brackets

 When enabled, hilight brackets when they are closed. eg.: VIm will
 hilight the ( if the ) has been typed in.

Enable syntax hilighting

 When enabled, hilight special words or syntaxes in different colors,
 rule depends on the detected filetype.

Bash has dark background

 When enabled, VIm will then change the colors accordingly, for better readability.

Match caseinsensitively

 When enabled, don't care about upper and lower case while searching.

Match case smartly

 When enabled, do smart case matching while searching.

Enable incremental search

 When enabled, Do incremental searches.

Highlight matches

 When enabled, highlight search results.

Display line numbers

 When enabled, display line numbers at the left.

Autosave files

 When enabled, autosave before executing commands like :next or :exit.

Highlight current line

 When enabled, highlight the current line by underlining it.

Display the ruler

 When enabled, display a ruler a the bottom, which displays various informations.

Choose a colorscheme

 Choose a colorscheme. Set to "default" for using the system-wide default.

Rulerformat

 Here you can change the content of the ruler.
 BS-NGs default is: %45(%t\ %y\ %c\ %l\/%L\ %p%%%)
  %t - is the filename without path
  %y - is the filetype
  %c - is the number of current column
  %l - is the number of current line
  %L - is the total number of lines
  %p - is the percentage of file
 Where are much more - see VIM-Doc.