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Asked by prasad.ram

Hi sir i would like to save the settings of the vi editior like set showmode , ser showmatch , set ai,set ic like so many i didn't fwant set these commands for every time for the i would like to save these commands in .vimrc or .exrc but i did not find these two files so what can i do please help me

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valentinh (valentin-hancu) said : 		#1

go to home directory and create a new file .vimrc if do not exist.
ex:
  cd ~
  vi .vimrc (if file exist then will open else create a new one )

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prasad.ram (prasad-ram126) said : 		#2

ok then what should i do

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:41 PM, valentinh <
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> valentinh proposed the following answer:
> go to home directory and create a new file .vimrc if do not exist.
> ex:
> cd ~
> vi .vimrc (if file exist then will open else create a new one
> )
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Best Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart) said : 		#3

Prasad,

Then, you type in the settings you want to permanently make, such as 'set ai' etc.

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prasad.ram (prasad-ram126) said : 		#4

Thank You sir for giving me nice solution