Need good example of .vimrc file [closed]

I wanted to start using Vim, and need to create .vimrc configuration file for it. Where can I find some ready to use, good quality examples with described every option?

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Feel free to take mine as example. There is no guarantee that it will fit your needs, but I think it can serve as good starting point to create your own. Here is its content, for convenience:

" Configuration file for Vi Improved, save as ~/.vimrc to use.
" Written on 2014-07-16 by Miko Bartnicki <>.
" use Vim mode instead of pure Vi, it must be the first instruction
set nocompatible
" display settings
set encoding=utf-8 " encoding used for displaying file
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
set showmatch " highlight matching braces
set showmode " show insert/replace/visual mode
" write settings
set confirm " confirm :q in case of unsaved changes
set fileencoding=utf-8 " encoding used when saving file
set nobackup " do not keep the backup~ file
" edit settings
set backspace=indent,eol,start " backspacing over everything in insert mode
set expandtab " fill tabs with spaces
set nojoinspaces " no extra space after '.' when joining lines
set shiftwidth=8 " set indentation depth to 8 columns
set softtabstop=8 " backspacing over 8 spaces like over tabs
set tabstop=8 " set tabulator length to 8 columns
set textwidth=80 " wrap lines automatically at 80th column
" search settings
set hlsearch " highlight search results
set ignorecase " do case insensitive search...
set incsearch " do incremental search
set smartcase " ...unless capital letters are used
" file type specific settings
filetype on " enable file type detection
filetype plugin on " load the plugins for specific file types
filetype indent on " automatically indent code
" syntax highlighting
colorscheme solarized " set color scheme, must be installed first
set background=dark " dark background for console
syntax enable " enable syntax highlighting
" characters for displaying non-printable characters
set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:.,nbsp:_,extends:+,precedes:+
" tuning for gVim only
if has('gui_running') set background=light " light background for GUI set columns=84 lines=48 " GUI window geometry set guifont=Monospace\ 12 " font for GUI window set number " show line numbers
endif
" automatic commands
if has('autocmd') " file type specific automatic commands " tuning textwidth for Java code autocmd FileType java setlocal textwidth=132 if has('gui_running') autocmd FileType java setlocal columns=136 endif " don't replace Tabs with spaces when editing makefiles autocmd Filetype makefile setlocal noexpandtab " disable automatic code indentation when editing TeX and XML files autocmd FileType tex,xml setlocal indentexpr= " clean-up commands that run automatically on write; use with caution " delete empty or whitespaces-only lines at the end of file autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\(\s*\n\)\+\%$//ge " replace groups of empty or whitespaces-only lines with one empty line autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\(\s*\n\)\{3,}/\r\r/ge " delete any trailing whitespaces autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//ge
endif
" general key mappings
" center view on the search result
noremap n nzz
noremap N Nzz
" press F4 to fix indentation in whole file; overwrites marker 'q' position
noremap <F4> mqggVG=`qzz
inoremap <F4> <Esc>mqggVG=`qzza
" press F5 to sort selection or paragraph
vnoremap <F5> :sort i<CR>
nnoremap <F5> Vip:sort i<CR>
" press F8 to turn the search results highlight off
noremap <F8> :nohl<CR>
inoremap <F8> <Esc>:nohl<CR>a
" press F12 to toggle showing the non-printable charactes
noremap <F12> :set list!<CR>
inoremap <F12> <Esc>:set list!<CR>a