My .vimrc file

.vimrc

" turn off compatibility with the old vi
set nocompatible

set ts=4
set et

" turn syntax highlighting on by default
syntax on

" set auto-indenting on for programming
set ai

" Number of spaces that a pre-existing tab is equal to.
" For the amount of space used for a new tab use shiftwidth.
au BufRead,BufNewFile *py,*pyw,*.c,*.h set tabstop=8

" What to use for an indent.
" This will affect Ctrl-T and 'autoindent'.
" Python: 4 spaces
" C: tabs (pre-existing files) or 4 spaces (new files)
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*pyw set shiftwidth=4

" ignore case when searching
set ic


" use < and > keys
set shiftwidth=4

set smarttab
set softtabstop=4

set expandtab





" turn on the "visual bell" - which is much quieter than the "audio blink"
set vb

" highlight words when searching for them. it's distracting.
"set hlsearch

" automatically show matching brackets. works like it does in bbedit.
"set showmatch


" do NOT put a carriage return at the end of the last line! if you are programming
" for the web the default will cause http headers to be sent. that's bad.
"set binary noeol
" This resets noexpandtab!

" make that backspace key work the way it should
"set backspace=indent,eol,start


"highlight BadPyWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
"au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py match BadPyWhitespace /^\t\+/
"match BadPyWhitespace /^\t\+/
"match BadPyWhitespace /\s\+$/

" This doesn't work!
"au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py highlight BadPyWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
"au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py match BadPyWhitespace /^\t\+/
"au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py match BadPyWhitespace /\s\+$/

"let python_highlight_space_errors = 1
"let python_highlight_tabs = 1