[wodny]

I don't believe it's possible to have a good vimrc without really grasping some elementary concepts like movements, operators, registers, windows etc. I have recently watched all the Drew Neil's VimCasts[1] and after just a couple of hours I've realized I was missing a lot for at least 10 years. There is also quite a good presentation on YouTube by Max Cantor "How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)"[2]. Instead of treating a single vimrc as the best one it's useful to skim through dotfiles and plugins of some influential vim users like Drew Neil[3] and Tim Pope[4]. BTW VimCasts are accompanied by a book. The second edition[5] includes changes introduced by Vim 8.0.

[1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2WjJbmmoM [3]: https://github.com/nelstrom/dotfiles [4]: https://github.com/tpope [5]: https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-editio...

[rcdmd]

I would also recommend Daniel Miessler's tutorial.[1]

[1]: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/

[heycato]

+1 for the Max Cantor presentation - I mostly use stock vim now because of that video... also you can get a lot of mileage from combining :read with shell commands. I like this approach as it forces me to level up my bash.