Hello, This is how i like my .vimrc file :)

” Enable syntax highlighting
syntax enable

” Map F8 with next tab, and F7 with previous tab
map :tabn
map :tabp

” Make sure backspace always works
set backspace=2

” Autoindent
set autoindent

For those of you who are still running vim < 7 i recommend you update purely for the tabs. Although previous versions had a :next and :prev the new tabs along the top just seems to make work much easier.

I also highly recommend checking out the vim documentation, available at this link: Vim Documentation and also check out this for some cool tutorials and links Vim Resources