[tambourine_man]

Oh no, I need at the very least timeoutlen, visualbell and line number. I type that manually when I SSH if I must. Don't want to wait for ESC, no beeps at all and I wanna know where I am on the document.

And lots more is needed for decent Vim IMO. smartcase, set hidden, etc.

[jstanley]

I read that most people only use about 10% of vim's features, but everyone uses a different 10% :)

[cempaka]

relativenumber is essential too, unless you like typing something like d-638-<Shift>-G just to delete 15 or 20 lines of text.

[jstanley]

I actually think lack of line numbering is essential, because I quite frequently want to select blocks of code with the mouse and yank into the clipboard.

[tambourine_man]

That is true, but you can integrate tmux and vim with the system's clipboard. Then again, :set nu! is easy to type.