Useful vi options

Option              Default                 Action

autoindent noai automatically indents each line of text number nonu prefix lines with line number term $TERM sets type of terminal to use scroll scroll=11 sets number of lines scrolled with ^d and z shell sh=/bin/sh defines the shell used for UNIX commands. This value is taken from the SHELL environment variable. shiftwidth sw=8 sets the number of spaces for use with autoindent wrapmargin (wm) wm=0 specifies number of spaces lines are broken before right edge of the screen

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