Vi set color scheme , line numbers and syntax highlighting

Today I wanted to to set the Color Scheme in vi / vim in my Linux. The default configuration looks ugly:

I wanted to look like this:

So after some searching in the web I found an article in talkbinary and I did the following:

1. Create in your home directory a file called .exrc

   touch ~/.exrc
   

2. Open this file and insert the following parameters:

   set number
   syntax on
   colorscheme evening
   

3. Save the file and you are done! Now you have a nice colourfull VI editor