My own .vimrc file, kept for reference.

My .vimrc

" set line numbering
set nu

" formatting options

set shiftwidth=4 "set default  
set softtabstop=4
set autoindent
set smartindent
set smarttab
set expandtab
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

""" search options

set magic " search using extended regex
" set incsearch " instant search
set ignorecase " Make search case insensitive
set smartcase " if the search pattern contains upper case letters, then make the search


""" Auto completion

" Omni Completion
set omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete
" Autocomplete with wildchar in command mode
set wildmenu

" Highlight trailing whitespace
" FIX THIS, DOESN'T WORK!
" highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
" match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/

" Adding Plugin Pathogen
execute pathogen#infect()
execute pathogen#helptags()


""" Powerline settings

""" Unicode glyphs
set encoding=utf-8 " Necessary to show Unicode glyphs

""" Disable vi-compatibilty
set nocompatible

set laststatus=2   " Always show the statusline
    
let g:Powerline_symbols = 'unicode' " Define dividers and shii, look at help: Powerline_symbols

let g:Powerline_theme = 'default' " Powerline theme

" Set ColorSchemes
" Setting this after all the plugins and shii have loaded, because Monokai
" exists in one of added colorscheme plugins
"
" This is a lot faster than checking filetype for some reason
" autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.py colorscheme Monokai 
" autocmd filetype python colorscheme Monokai
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.tex colorscheme blacklight