minmal.vimrc

" Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

" Make backspace behave in a sane manner.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Switch syntax highlighting on
syntax on

" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin indent on

" Show line numbers
set number

filetype plugin on
set omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete

" visual autocomplete for command menu
set wildmenu

"remove ugly ass  split separator
set fillchars=""

" bybye ex mode
nnoremap Q <nop>

" use space as leader
set iskeyword-=.                    " '.' is an end of word designator
set iskeyword-=#                    " '#' is an end of word designator
set iskeyword-=-                    " '-' is an end of word designator
set iskeyword-=_                    " '_' is an end of word designator
set nobackup
set noswapfile
set clipboard+=unnamed

" tab is 4 spaces
set tabstop=4
" always uses spaces instead of tab characters
set expandtab
" set spell check in English
setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
" special mode line at end of file
set modelines=1
" md files as markdown
autocmd BufRead,BufNew *.md set filetype=markdown
" highlight as you type
set incsearch
set showmatch           " highlight matching [{()}]
" smart case when searching
set ignorecase
set smartcase
" better mousee interacation
set mouse=nicr
" folding 
set foldenable  " enable folding
set foldnestmax=10  " max 10 nested fold allower
set foldmethod=syntax " fold based on indent level
" reload on save
autocmd! bufwritepost .vimrc source %
" vim: foldmethod=marker