" Basic vimrc for systems you don't want to copy the full one to set encoding=utf-8 " The encoding displayed. set fileencoding=utf-8 " The encoding written to file. set background=dark " Since most terminals I have dark backgrounds set nu " Line 'nu'mbers set rnu set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬,trail:• " Listchars are used to show normally " invisible chars such as tabs, EOL and " trailing whitespace " set listchars=tab:\|\ " Alternative listchars w/o special chars. set colorcolumn=80 " Sets a "coloured" coloumn to tell you where your line " breaks should be so you don't piss off people using " a terminal. set ic " Case insensitive search by default set hls " Highlight my searches by default set updatecount=0 " Do not write swap files set nocompatible " Don't be compatbile with 'vi' set tabstop=4 " Tab width set shiftwidth=4 set noexpandtab " Do **NOT** turn tabs into spaces by default " Be smart about the mouse set mouse+=a if &term =~ '^screen' " tmux knows the extended mouse mode set ttymouse=xterm2 endif syntax on " Syntax highlighting by default set nomodeline " I know how to setup my editor, I don't need your " changes to my vim configuration. " Use \-n in normal mode to toggle line numbers nmap n :set invnu " Use \-l in normal mode to toggle listchars nmap l :set list! " Use \-s to pop open a spelling menu. use ]s to search forwards and [s to go " backwards. " Apparently this also doesn't work if spell checking isn't enabled " at the time you enable it. set spell nnoremap \s ea set nospell " set hidden " This will allow you to change buffers w/o saving " Omni completion, c-x c-o in insert/append mode " filetype plugin on " set omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete