A vim profile file designed for editing Fortran source code

.vimrc

" Ensure correct syntax highlighting and auto-indentation for Fortran free-form
" source code.
let fortran_free_source=1
let fortran_do_enddo=1
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on

" Turn on line numbers and row/column numbers.
set nu
set ruler

" Make vim echo commands as they are being entered.
set showcmd

" Set tabstops to two spaces and ensure tab characters are expanded into
" spaces.
set smarttab
set expandtab
set smartindent
set autoindent
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2

" Fix backspace key.
set bs=2

" Set up searching so that it jumps to matches as the word is being entered and
" is case-insensitive.
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set smartcase

" Uncomment the following lines to make
" vim automatically create a backup copy
" each time a file is edited.
"
" If you enable this feature, be sure to
"   
"   mkdir ~/codeBackups
"
" or it won't work.
"set backupdir=~/codeBackups
"set backup