Personal configuration files for Linux

I’ve copied the stuff helps me to have my home Linux systems comfortable for own personal taste and use.

VIM

My preference for editing text is VIM, it was the first I learned in a HP-UX and SCO and it’s present on every *NIX variant. To get it with colors, numbered lines, syntax highlighting and cursor blinking I type this into my .vimrc file (originally picked from Doug Black – A good vimrc):

" from https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html
set cursorline " highlight current line
set number " show line numbers
" syntax enable " enable syntax processing
set showmatch " highlight matching [{()}]
"set background=black " darker looks better with putty
:highlight Normal ctermfg=grey ctermbg=darkblue

BASH

I’m getting use -lately- to avoid aliases in bash shell, so I removed from previous configuration files. My home .bashrc looks very simple, I’ve only chage my prompt for root user and the command line for use VIM:

# ------------
# My own stuff
# ------------
set -o vi
# Everybody should use this shit
export PS1="[\[\033[41;1;37m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\h \W]$ "

XTerm

One of the first thing I do when I log into a windows environment is to open an XTerm. No, I do not open a gnome-terminal. XTerm is lighter, faster to start and as soon as I log in I run the screen command inside my XTerm.
Second thing I used to do is to make the screen longer because I prefer long screen to read and avoid scrolling or redirection to a pager command. So, depending on what XTerm and what graphical environment are you using this following line may run or not:

XTerm*geometry: 79x80