Jeremy Foote

Jeremy Foote

Computational social scientist studying cooperation and collaboration in online communities; faculty at Purdue University.

.vimrc and Dropbox

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If you have used vim for very long, you have almost certainly made some modifications to your .vimrc file - this is the file that stores configurations for how vim does things like tabs, syntax highlighting, etc.

If you use more than one computer, I highly recommend keeping your .vimrc file on the cloud. It's incredibly simple, and provides for a consistent experience across computers.

This Stack Overflow post gives simple instructions on how to do this.

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