vim config

.vimrc

" vim /etc/vimrc
" vim ~/.vimrc

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" => General
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set showmode
set showcmd
set number
" set mouse=a
set encoding=utf-8

" Sets how many lines of history VIM has to remember
set history=500

" Set to auto read when a file is changed from the outside
set autoread

" Turn on the Wild menu
set wildmenu

" 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

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" => Colors and Fonts
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" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax enable

" Enable 256 colors palette in Gnome Terminal
if $COLORTERM == 'gnome-terminal'
    set t_Co=256
endif

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" => Files, backups and undo
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" Turn backup off, since most stuff is in SVN, git et.c anyway...
set nobackup
set nowb
set noswapfile

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" => Text, tab and indent related
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" Use spaces instead of tabs
set expandtab

" Be smart when using tabs
set smarttab

" 1 tab == 4 spaces
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4