Add a vimrc and update Vagrantfile accordingly

.vimrc

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+" use Vim mode instead of pure Vi, it must be the first instruction
+set nocompatible
+
+" display settings
+set encoding=utf-8 " encoding used for displaying file
+set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
+set showmatch " highlight matching braces
+set showmode " show insert/replace/visual mode
+
+" write settings
+set confirm " confirm :q in case of unsaved changes
+set fileencoding=utf-8 " encoding used when saving file
+set nobackup " do not keep the backup~ file
+
+" edit settings
+set backspace=indent,eol,start " backspacing over everything in insert mode
+set expandtab " fill tabs with spaces
+set nojoinspaces " no extra space after '.' when joining lines
+set shiftwidth=4 " set indentation depth to 8 columns
+set softtabstop=4 " backspacing over 8 spaces like over tabs
+set tabstop=4 " set tabulator length to 8 columns
+set textwidth=80 " wrap lines automatically at 80th column
+
+" search settings
+set hlsearch " highlight search results
+set ignorecase " do case insensitive search...
+set incsearch " do incremental search
+set smartcase " ...unless capital letters are used
+
+" file type specific settings
+filetype on " enable file type detection
+filetype plugin on " load the plugins for specific file types
+filetype indent on " automatically indent code
+
+" syntax highlighting
+colorscheme solarized " set color scheme, must be installed first
+set background=dark " dark background for console
+syntax enable " enable syntax highlighting
+
+" characters for displaying non-printable characters
+set listchars=eol:$,tab:>-,trail:.,nbsp:_,extends:+,precedes:+
+
+" tuning for gVim only
+if has('gui_running')
+        set background=light " light background for GUI
+        set columns=84 lines=48 " GUI window geometry
+        set guifont=Monospace\ 12 " font for GUI window
+        set number " show line numbers
+endif
+
+" automatic commands
+if has('autocmd')
+        " file type specific automatic commands
+
+        " tuning textwidth for Java code
+        autocmd FileType java setlocal textwidth=132
+        if has('gui_running')
+                autocmd FileType java setlocal columns=136
+        endif
+
+        " don't replace Tabs with spaces when editing makefiles
+        autocmd Filetype makefile setlocal noexpandtab
+
+        " disable automatic code indentation when editing TeX and XML files
+        autocmd FileType tex,xml setlocal indentexpr=
+
+        " clean-up commands that run automatically on write; use with caution
+
+        " delete empty or whitespaces-only lines at the end of file
+        autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\(\s*\n\)\+\%$//ge
+
+        " replace groups of empty or whitespaces-only lines with one empty line
+        autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\(\s*\n\)\{3,}/\r\r/ge
+
+        " delete any trailing whitespaces
+        autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//ge
+endif
+
+" general key mappings
+
+" center view on the search result
+noremap n nzz
+noremap N Nzz
+
+" press F4 to fix indentation in whole file; overwrites marker 'q' position
+noremap <F4> mqggVG=`qzz
+inoremap <F4> <Esc>mqggVG=`qzza
+
+" press F5 to sort selection or paragraph
+vnoremap <F5> :sort i<CR>
+nnoremap <F5> Vip:sort i<CR>
+
+" press F8 to turn the search results highlight off
+noremap <F8> :nohl<CR>
+inoremap <F8> <Esc>:nohl<CR>a
+
+" press F12 to toggle showing the non-printable charactes
+noremap <F12> :set list!<CR>
+inoremap <F12> <Esc>:set list!<CR>a

Vagrantfile

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     base.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|
       virtualbox.memory = 2048
     end
+
+    base.vm.provision "file", source: ".bashrc", destination: ".bashrc", run: "always"
+    base.vm.provision "file", source: ".vimrc", destination: ".vimrc", run: "always"
   end
 
 end