My vimrc setup

vimrc

"" Minimal setting and configuration
"" These settings makes editing less of a drag :)
"---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Use vim settings
set nocompatible

" changes backspace indentation behavior
set backspace=indent,eol,start


" enable syntax highlighting
syntax on 


" enable filetype detection and language dependent indenting
filetype plugin indent on

" set size of indentation to 4, what I use for coding.
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set softtabstop=4


" show line numbers
set number


" Allow hidden buffers
set hidden


" reload files changed outside vim
set autoread


" enable matchit plugin which ships with vim and greatly enhances '%'
runtime macros/matchit.vim i


" encoding is utf 8
set encoding=utf-8
set fileencoding=utf-8


" Use linux file format
set fileformat=unix


"----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
" Mappings
"----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


" set / as mapleader
let mapleader = "/"


" Map ctrl+x, ctrl+c and ctrl+v to their usual meaning (cut, copy and paste)
vnoremap <C-c> "+y
vnoremap <C-x> "+x
map <C-v> "+gP


" Generates ctags when f12 is hit. exuberant-ctags is required.
" Ctags allows you to jump to function definitions with ctrl+j
map <f12> :!ctags -R .<cr>