I've been using Vim for over ten years now, across several jobs and platforms and tasks, so my .vimrc and .gvimrc have gathered quite a bit of cruft. I keep them in a git repository along with my various other generically useful config files, and just check them out on each new machine I get an account on.

There's too much stuff in these files to describe what everything does, but there's a lot of comments, so along with the Vim online help you should be able to figure everything out:

.vimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270714/

.gvimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270716/

Highlights include a single key-binding for stepping through every buffer in every tab, consistent mouse-handling between console-vim and gvim, and code to automatically make gvim inherit the GNOME default monospace font.

Mine are entirely without comments, but on the off chance that they'll be useful:

.vimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270777/ .gvimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270778/

I keep a very simple vimrc file with minimal customization. Note however that I'm a beginner with Vim, so my customizations end with what "just works" with minimum pain for me.

  set nobackup
  set clipboard=unnamed
  set number
  set tabstop=4
  set shiftwidth=4
  set expandtab
  colorscheme oceandeep

Same for me, minimal config here:

  set tabstop=4
  set expandtab
  set list
  set listchars=tab:>.
  hi Comment ctermfg=darkgray
  syntax enable

I have the tabs replaced to ">." since I moved from tabs to 4-spaces in all my code. That way I can do a :retab in those old files which still have tabs in them.

ps: Glad to see I'm not the only Vim geek around here! ;)