Configure Default Settings of vim editor

To change the default settings of vi editor, we have to configure the vi editor configuration file (.vimrc), to configure the default settings follow the below steps,

• Open the file in vi editor to configure it

vim ~/.vimrc

• Configure the default setting as per your requirements

• For example, if you want to hide the line numbers by default when you open the vim editor add the command set nonumber in the configuration file.

• When you are done with configuration Press Esc to exit the insert mode
• Use :wq command to save the changes and exit the editor

In this article, we will cover how to hide line numbers in the Vim editor. First, we look at what Linux and VIM editors and why we use them, what are its features and how can we use them followed by various options to make the Vim editor hide line numbers and how we can change the default settings of Vim editor to hide line numbers.

Linux

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a hobby project. It is an open-source (source code that can be used by anyone freely) kernel that is most popular and widely used in the industry as well as in personal systems. There are various operating systems based on the Linux kernel, some of the popular Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Cent OS, Red Hat, Debian, and Kali Linux.

VIM Editor

Vi Editor is a widely used text editor in Unix/Linux systems and is known for its efficiency and flexibility. Vi editor was developed in 1976 by Bill Joy and later in 1991, an improved version of Vi editor was released which is known as VI IMproved (VIM).