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- [Instructor] Out of the box, Vim is very powerful, but one of Vim's main strengths is the amount of customization you can do. You can add commands, map keys, and even write extensions in various languages such as Vimscript, Python, and more. Depending on your operating system, Vim's configuration file will be in a different location. On Mac and Linux, it's .vimrc under your home directory. On windows, it will be c:/users/<yourlogin>_vimrc. If you work on many systems, try to avoid too much customization in your vimrc file. It will make it hard to use vanilla vim on other systems you are using. Vim users create their vimrc for years. Mine is 20 years in the making and I'm still tinkering with it. Let's try a small example. Vim hello.py. If you'd like to see line numbers, you can set his option with :set number and enter. :set can be abbreviated to :se and number can be abbreviated to nu. If you'd like to switch off line numbers, add the no before the option. Set, no, nu. And the line…

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