There are .vimrc related questions found here and here.
This question wants to deal with a minimalistic .vimrc file.
If you are on a new machine with no .vimrc file what are some 'must turn on' commands you use before doing any typing?
There is never a need for a minimalistic configuration. This solves everything:
wget -O ~/.vimrc http://github.com/lucasoman/Conf/raw/master/.vimrc