In addition to what mik suggested, you can also create a directory called ~/.vim and under that directory create directories for colors, syntax and plugins. Copy the files you want to change to the hierarchy you created under your home directory as these will be used instead of the global ones in /usr/share/vim, if they are present.
Also, settings are stored in ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvimrc (for the GUI version). I usually have all my general settings in ~/.vimrc and call it from my ~/.gvimrc so the settings are the same for both versions of vim. The things I define in my .gvimrc are only GUI-related. For reference, here is my ~/.gvimrc:
Code:
" Get the .vimrc settings
so ~/.vimrc
" Set color scheme
colo buttercream
"This is the XFT version of font names, if you have an old GTK 1.x version you
"+ need to use regular XFree86 font names
set guifont=ProFontWindows\ 9
...and here is my .vimrc:
Code:
" Map Ctrl+N to (temporarily) disable search highlighting
nmap <silent> <C-N> :silent noh<CR>
" Get rid of annoying errors when you do simple typos
map :W :w
map :Q :q
" Settings...
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set cindent
set ignorecase
set showmatch
set title
set showmode
set ttyfast
set wildchar=<TAB>
" Set the make program to the java compiler so you can compile
" and jump between errors inside vim
set makeprg=javac\ %
set errorformat=%A%f:%l:\ %m,%-Z%p^,%-C%.%#
" Gentoo-portage specific stuff
if (getcwd() =~ 'gentoo-x86\|gentoo-src\|portage')
set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 noexpandtab
endif
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