VIM will probably be a lot more useful with a ".vimrc". You have an account on the server, it is a plain text file in your ~ (home) directory. If you google "vimrc" you'll find stuff. VIM documentation is chaotic but there's lots of it online.
Here's a totally excessive .vimrc that should take a few months to decypher:
The ultimate Vim configuration (vimrc)
Here's a more minimal example:
Code:
:syntax enable
command SpellOn setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
command SpellOff setlocal nospell
" spell suggest: z=
set number
set nowrap
set bs=indent,eol,start " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set list listchars=tab:\|_,trail:-
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set wildmenu
set ruler
set virtualedit=all " virtual space at line end
set hlsearch " highlight search hits
set autoread " update when file is altered elsewhere