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title: Vim (editor) .vimrc file
category: software
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---
The file `.vimrc` in your home directory has instructions for [[vim]]
to load every time it runs. Customizations go there.
For instance, you might want to use [[Markdown]] to edit files that
end in `.md` . The system default for some reason is to treat these as
[[Modula-2]] files, though we don't have a Modula-2 compiler running
(yet). So the contents of `.vimrc` should read
``
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.md set filetype=markdown
``
For more suggestions in deep depth on how to set up your `.vimrc` please read
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[this tutorial from Doug Black ](https://web.archive.org/web/20161224112739/https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html ). (The website's no longer up, it's on the 'net archive.
