My personal vimrc

vimrc

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"           GENERAL
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set nocompatible

set history=500
" undo, pour revenir en arrière
set undolevels=150

" vim monitor realtime changes to a file
set autoread

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"           FILE
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" Using multi-byte UTF-8 encoding
scriptencoding utf-8
set encoding=utf-8

" File type = Unix 
set ffs=unix,dos,mac


set nostartofline

set backspace=indent,eol,start

set backup
" Backup dans ~/.vim/backup
if filewritable(expand("~/.vim/backup")) == 2
       	set backupdir=$HOME/.vim/backup
else
	if has("unix") || has("win32unix")
		call system("mkdir $HOME/.vim/backup -p")
		set backupdir=$HOME/.vim/backup
	endif
endif

if has("syntax")
    syntax on
endif

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"         TAB AND INDENT
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" Use spaces instead of tabs
set expandtab
set smarttab
" tab = 4 spaces
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4

" always set autoindenting on 
set autoindent
" smart indent
set smartindent
" set cindent
set noautoindent
"set nosmartindent
set nocindent

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"           DISPLAY
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" No sound and visual errors
set errorbells
set novisualbell
set t_vb=
set tm=500

" Show matching brackets when text indicator is over them
set showmatch
" How many seconds showing the matching brackets
"set matchtime=2

" status bar
set laststatus=2

" Returns true if paste mode is enabled
function! HasPaste()
    if &paste
        return 'PASTE MODE  '
    en
    return ''
endfunction
" Format
set statusline=\ %{HasPaste()}%F%m%r%h\ %w\ \ CWD:\ %r%{getcwd()}%h\ \ \ Line:\ %l

" Show current position
set ruler

colorscheme desert
set background=dark
" Set extra options when running in GUI mode
"if has("gui_running")
    set guioptions-=T
    set guioptions+=e
    set t_Co=256
    set guitablabel=%M\ %t
"endif

" Highlighting the line where is the cursor
function s:SetCursorLine()
    set cursorline
    " show line numbers
    set number
    highlight CursorLine cterm=NONE ctermbg=DarkBlue ctermfg=LightYellow guibg=DarkBlue guifg=white
    highlight LineNr term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkGrey ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=DarkGrey guibg=NONE
endfunction
"set cursorline
autocmd VimEnter * call s:SetCursorLine()

" Height of the command bar
set cmdheight=2

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"           SEARCHING
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" Ignore case when searching
set ignorecase

" When searching try to be smart about cases 
set smartcase

" Highlight search results
set hlsearch

" Makes search act like search in modern browsers
set incsearch

set scrolloff=3

set showcmd

set ttyfast

" For regular expressions turn magic on
set magic

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"           LEADER
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" Set a map leader
" eq. <leader>w saves the current file
let mapleader = ";"
let g:mapleader = ";"

" Fast saving
nmap <leader>w :w!<cr>

" Switch CWD to the directory of the open buffer
map <leader>cd :cd %:p:h<cr>:pwd<cr>

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"       BUFFER AND TABS
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" Map <Space> to / (search) and Ctrl-<Space> to ? (backwards search)
map <space> /
map <c-space> ?

" Close the current buffer
map <leader>bd :Bclose<cr>

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"       DEVELOPER OPTIONS
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" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax enable
if has("autocmd")
	"au filetype html        set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
	"au filetype css         set omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
	"au filetype javascript  set omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
	"au filetype php         set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP
	"au filetype xml         set omnifunc=xmlcomplete#CompleteTags


	au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0|if line("'\"") <= line("$")|exe("norm '\"")|else|exe "norm $"|endif|endif
	au FileType helpfile set nonumber      " no line numbers when viewing help
	au FileType helpfile nnoremap <buffer><cr> <c-]>   " Enter selects subject
	au FileType helpfile nnoremap <buffer><bs> <c-T>   " Backspace to go back

	au FileType mail,tex set textwidth=72
	au FileType cpp,c,java,sh,pl,php,asp  set autoindent
	au FileType cpp,c,java,sh,pl,php,asp  set smartindent
	au FileType cpp,c,java,sh,pl,php,asp  set cindent

	au BufNewFile,BufRead  *.pls    set syntax=dosini
	au BufNewFile,BufRead  modprobe.conf    set syntax=modconf

endif

Installation

mkdir ~/.config
git clone https://gist.github.com/d2b6ccc2c5bb3dd0fdbc.git ~/.config/vimrc
ln -sf ~/.config/vimrc ~/.vimrc