How do I make a Vim setting persistent across different Vim invocations/instances/sessions?
.vimrc or .gvimrc file. You can also use the “:mkvimrc” command to generate a vimrc file for the current settings. For more information, read :help save-settings :help vimrc :help gvimrc :help vimrc-intro :help :mkvimrc :help initialization 19.15. Why do I hear a beep (why does my window flash) about 1 second after I hit the Escape key? This is normal behavior. If your window flashes, then you’ve got the visual bell on. Otherwise, you should hear a beep. Vim needs a timeout to tell the difference between a simple escape and, say, a cursor key sequence. When you press a key in normal mode (and even in insert mode) and that key is the beginning of a mapping, Vim waits a certain amount of time to see if the rest of the mapping sequence follows. If the mapping sequence is completed before a given timeout period, the mapping for that sequence of keys is applied. If you interrupt the mapping, the normal actions associated with the keys are executed. For example, if you have a mapping defined
