Vimrc with nice settings

.vimrc

" must be first, changes behaviour of other settings
set nocompatible

" 256 colors
set t_Co=256

" sane text files
set fileformat=unix
set encoding=utf-8

" sane tabs
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set softtabstop=4

" convert all typed tabs to spaces
set expandtab

" syntax highlighting
syntax on
color koehler

"make sure highlighting works all the way down long files
autocmd BufEnter * :syntax sync fromstart

" allow cursor to be positioned one char past end of line
" and apply operations to all of selection including last char
set selection=exclusive

" allow backgrounding buffers without writing them
" and remember marks/undo for backgrounded buffers
set hidden

" Keep more context when scrolling off the end of a buffer
set scrolloff=3

" allow cursor keys to go right off end of one line, onto start of next
set whichwrap+=<,>,[,]
" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" no line wrapping
set nowrap

" line numbers
set number

" when joining lines, don't insert two spaces after punctuation
set nojoinspaces

" Make searches case-sensitive only if they contain upper-case characters
set ignorecase
set smartcase
" show search matches as the search pattern is typed
set incsearch
" search-next wraps back to start of file
set wrapscan
" highlight last search matches
set hlsearch
" map key to dismiss search highlightedness
map <bs> :noh<CR>

" grep for word under cursor
noremap <Leader>g :grep -rw '<C-r><C-w>' .<CR>

" aliases for window switching (browser captures ctrl-w)
noremap <C-l> <C-w>l
noremap <C-h> <C-w>h
noremap <C-k> <C-w>k
noremap <C-j> <C-w>j

" similarly ctrl-q doesnt work, so use leader-q for block visual mode
nnoremap <leader>q <C-Q>


" make tab completion for files/buffers act like bash
set wildmenu


" display cursor co-ords at all times
set ruler
set cursorline

" display number of selected chars, lines, or size of blocks.
set showcmd

" show matching brackets, etc, for 1/10th of a second
set showmatch
set matchtime=1


" enables filetype specific plugins
filetype plugin on
" enables filetype detection
filetype on

if has("autocmd")
    " Enable file type detection.
    " Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72,
    " 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.
    " Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
    filetype plugin indent on
    
    " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
    " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
    " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
    autocmd BufReadPost *
    \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
    \   exe "normal g`\"" |
    \ endif

else
    " if old vim, set vanilla autoindenting on
    set autoindent

endif " has("autocmd")


" enable automatic yanking to and pasting from the selection
set clipboard+=unnamed



" places to look for tags files:
set tags=./tags,tags
" recursively search file's parent dirs for tags file
" set tags+=./tags;/
" recursively search cwd's parent dirs for tags file
set tags+=tags;/

"autocompletion
inoremap <c-space> <c-n>
inoremap <c-s-space> <c-p>


" =====STATUS LINE OF DEATH!!=====
set statusline=
" filename, relative to cwd
set statusline+=%f
" separator
set statusline+=\ 

" modified flag
set statusline+=%#wildmenu#
set statusline+=%m
set statusline+=%*

"Display a warning if file encoding isnt utf-8
set statusline+=%#question#
set statusline+=%{(&fenc!='utf-8'&&&fenc!='')?'['.&fenc.']':''}
set statusline+=%*

"display a warning if fileformat isnt unix
set statusline+=%#directory#
set statusline+=%{&ff!='unix'?'['.&ff.']':''}
set statusline+=%*

"display a warning if files contains tab chars
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{StatuslineTabWarning()}
set statusline+=%*

" read-only
set statusline+=%r
set statusline+=%*

" right-align
set statusline+=%=

" filetype
set statusline+=%{strlen(&ft)?&ft:'none'}
" separator
set statusline+=\ 

" current char
set statusline+=%3b,0x%02B
" separator
set statusline+=\ 

" column,
set statusline+=%2c,
" current line / lines in file
set statusline+=%l/%L

" always show status line
set laststatus=2

" return '[tabs]' if tab chars in file, or empty string
function! StatuslineTabWarning()
    if !exists("b:statusline_tab_warning")
        let tabs = search('^\t', 'nw') != 0

        if tabs
            let b:statusline_tab_warning = '[tabs]'
        else
            let b:statusline_tab_warning = ''
        endif
    endif
    return b:statusline_tab_warning
endfunction
"recalculate the tab warning flag when idle and after writing
autocmd cursorhold,bufwritepost * unlet! b:statusline_tab_warning