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.vimrc and .gvimrc.
Or to put it another way round, my Vim configuration files are available, and this site as a whole explains what they do and why they do it. See the links from the main page for explanations of particular sections.
As might be expected, things to do with Vim’s gui are
in .gvimrc (which should be renamed to
_gvimrc on Windows and the like), while all the other
settings, mappings, functions, etc, are all in
.vimrc (aka _vimrc).
At 743 lines long, my .vimrc is fairly substantial, but this
is not as bad as it sounds — 150 of them are blank, and 311 of them
are explanatory comments, while a further 125 contain function
definitions (which it isn’t necessary to understand in order to be
able to use).
The .vimrc provided here is the one I actually use. It
works with Vim version 5·6 (the latest version at
the time of writing) cos that’s the version I use. So far as
I’m aware it ought to work with 5·5 but I haven’t
tested it. With 5·4 the textual version of the
backspace option won’t work, but must other things
probably will. Versions older than that don’t have the mechanism
for file type detection, so many things won’t work. It’s
worth upgrading to the latest version, anyway.
The only options included are the ones that are changed; anything left at its default setting is omitted. As such, while the file provides an example of what can be done with Vim, it is not a comprehensive guide to every setting you might ever want to play with (for that, see Sven Guckes’s .vimrc).
It probably isn’t sensible just to copy my .vimrc in
its entirety without reading through it all. You are not me. We are
different, and I don’t want to be held responsible for messing up
something which used to work until you adopted my settings! Having said
that, the file is divided up into sections which should work fairly
independently, and the copious comments should help if something does go
wrong. Good luck!