text editor suggestion?

[John Salerno]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> John Salerno enlightened us with:
>> I'd really like to learn vim, but I spent days just trying to figure
>> out how to get the syntax highlighting and indentation working,
>> where these settings are and how to edit them
> 
> Stop being a man and just ask for directions :)

Oh don't worry, I have no shame. I was asking a ton of questions, yet I 
still couldn't figure it out.

> 
>> It just feels so insurmountable that I can't even start working with
>> it yet because I don't know how to tailor the settings.
> 
> "vim ~/.vimrc" is all you need on any system but Windows. There IIRC
> you need to edit C:\Program Files\VIM\_vimrc.

But what about customizing syntax coloring? Is this also in the same 
file? I've noticed a separate file called python.vim (in Windows, this 
file exists in a 'syntax' folder, and also another file of the same name 
in an 'indent' folder, so I'm *still* confused about which files are 
used for which settings.