my .vimrc

.vimrc

" Things that need no explanation
set nocompatible
syntax on
set background=dark

" Tweaks to help mousiness work in normal vim inside an xterm.
set mouse=a
set ttymouse=xterm2

" Attempt to get sane indenting:
set autoindent
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=2
set expandtab            " Make sure that ^T, <<, >>, and the like use spaces.
set cinoptions=l1,g0.5s,h0.5s,i2s,+2s,(0,W2s

" Don't mess with my terminal unless I tell you to!
set notitle
set norestorescreen

" Nice helper stuff:
set showmode
set showmatch
set ruler
set showcmd
set incsearch
set hlsearch             " Highlight previous search results
set backspace=2

" Make it so that tabs and trailing spaces are always visible:
" (Relys on syntax highlighting to turn them yellow.)
set list
set listchars=tab:..,trail:\ ,extends:»,precedes:«

" So we can see tabs and trailing spaces.
hi SpecialKey ctermbg=Yellow guibg=Yellow

filetype plugin indent on

" Highlight lines > 80 chars
function! HighlightTooLongLines()
  highlight def link RightMargin Error
  if &textwidth != 0
    exec 'match RightMargin /\%<' . (&textwidth + 4) . 'v.\%>' . (&textwidth + 2) . 'v/'
  endif
endfunction

augroup filetypedetect
au BufNewFile,BufRead * call HighlightTooLongLines()
augroup END

" Clever tab - if at start of line insert spaces; else complete word.
function! CleverTab()
   if strpart( getline('.'), 0, col('.')-1 ) =~ '^\s*$'
      return "\<Tab>"
   else
      return "\<C-X>\<C-N>"
endfunction
inoremap <Tab> <C-R>=CleverTab()<CR>

" Tab-complete filenames to longest unambiguous match and present menu:
set wildmenu wildmode=longest:full
:au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | exe "normal g'\"" | endif

autocmd BufWrite mytips             :helptags ~/.vim/doc/
autocmd BufRead  mytips             set filetype=help
autocmd BufRead  mytips             set noreadonly
autocmd BufRead  mytips             set modifiable

nmap <leader>h :tabnew ~/.vim/doc/mytips<CR>


set secure               " Don't allow FS modifications in CWD .vimrc/.exrc.

" Turn on word-wrapping.
map gw :se tw=75<CR>
" Get rid of trailing whitespace.
map gc :%s/[ <Tab>]\+$//<CR>

" Fix paragraph movement ('{' and '}') to ignore whitespace.
" (This mostly works correctly, except when used in selection ('V') mode,
"  where the last search is changed.)
nmap { ?\S?;?^\s*$<CR>:call histdel("search", -1)<CR>:let @/ = histget("search", -1)<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>:<CR>
omap { ?\S?;?^\s*$<CR>:call histdel("search", -1)<CR>:let @/ = histget("search", -1)<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>:<CR>
vmap { ?\S?;?^\s*$<CR>
nmap } /\S/;/^\s*$<CR>:call histdel("search", -1)<CR>:let @/ = histget("search", -1)<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>:<CR>
omap } /\S/;/^\s*$<CR>:call histdel("search", -1)<CR>:let @/ = histget("search", -1)<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>:<CR>
vmap } /\S/;/^\s*$<CR>

" rst heading helper
let @h = "yypVr"

" select xml text to format and hit ,x
vmap ,x :!tidy -q -i -xml<CR>

" select html text to format and hit ,h
vmap ,h :!tidy -q -i<CR>

"" Don't put comments on the left-margin
inoremap # #

" Inspired by https://gist.github.com/954432

" pay attention to modelines, so i can deal with different tab conventions
" more easily.
set modeline
set modelines=5

"I hold shift down too long when i hit :w...
command W :w
command Wq :wq
command WQ :wq
command Q :q

python.vim

"---------------------------------------------------------------------
" Based on http://code.google.com/p/vim-python-ide/source/browse/.vimrc
" Modifications from https://dev.launchpad.net/UltimateVimPythonSetup 
" vimrc file for following the coding standards specified in PEP 8
" This should be saved as ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim
"---------------------------------------------------------------------

" Number of spaces to use for an indent.
" This will affect Ctrl-T and 'autoindent'.
" Python: 4 spaces, PEP-8 compatible
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*pyw set shiftwidth=4

" Number of spaces that a pre-existing tab is equal to.
" For the amount of space used for a new tab use shiftwidth.
" Python: 4
au BufRead,BufNewFile *py,*pyw,*.c,*.h set tabstop=4

" Replace tabs with the equivalent number of spaces.
" Also have an autocmd for Makefiles since they require hard tabs.
" Python: yes
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw set expandtab

" Use the below highlight group when displaying bad whitespace is desired
highlight BadWhitespace ctermbg=red guisp=red gui=undercurl guifg=NONE guibg=NONE

" Display tabs at the beginning of a line in Python mode as bad.
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw match BadWhitespace /^\t\+/
" Make trailing whitespace be flagged as bad.
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h match BadWhitespace /\s\+$/

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h set textwidth=78

" Use UNIX (\n) line endings.
" Only used for new files so as to not force existing files to change their
" line endings.
" Python: yes
au BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw set fileformat=unix

" The following section contains suggested settings.  While in no way required
" to meet coding standards, they are helpful.

" Set the default file encoding to UTF-8: 
set encoding=utf-8

"---------------------------------------------------------------------
" Python IDE relatd staff
"---------------------------------------------------------------------

" highlight variable under cursor (not smart)
" Python: yes

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw autocmd CursorMoved * silent! exe printf('match IncSearch /\<%s\>/', expand('<cword>'))

" Folding based on indentation:
" set foldmethod=indent

" Show full tags when doing search completion
set showfulltag

" Speed up macros
set lazyredraw

" Try to show at least three lines and two columns of context when
" scrolling
set scrolloff=3
set sidescrolloff=2

" Allow edit buffers to be hidden
set hidden
" 1 height windows
set winminheight=1

" Wrap on these
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw set whichwrap+=<,>,[,]

" Use the cool tab complete menu
set wildmenu
set wildignore=*.o,*~

" If possible, try to use a narrow number column.
setlocal numberwidth=4

"---------------------------------------------------------------------
" Vim 7.3 configs
"---------------------------------------------------------------------

" Persistent undo
set undodir=/tmp/
set undofile
set colorcolumn=80

"---------------------------------------------------------------------
" completion
"---------------------------------------------------------------------

"by tags
set dictionary=/usr/share/dict/words
let g:showfuncctagsbin = "/usr/bin/ctags"

" by pydict
let g:pydiction_location = '~/.vim/after/ftplugin/pydiction/complete-dict' 

I've now created a full repo at https://github.com/jamezpolley/dotfiles with these and lots more.