Although not being addicted to vim I do happen to use it on a regular basis as it is available on virtually all environments I do meaningful work with :). To get it a bit fancier you can add the following to your ~/.vimrc.
syntax enable set background=dark colorscheme solarized set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab
Download and copy corresponding theme like solarized.vim to ~/.vim/colors
:wq
Small update
If you get annoying A/B/C/D characters when pressing arrow buttons either change .vimrc to get
set nocp
or type it in the vim prompt
:set nocp
Enjoy!