Vim workshop .vimrc

" Map leader key to ,
let mapleader = ","

" Map : to ;
nnoremap ; :

" Map ; to :
nnoremap : ;

" Move in visual lines instead of actual lines, handy when using wrapping
noremap j gj
noremap k gk
noremap gj j
noremap gk k

" Split lines in half at the cursor
nnoremap S i<cr><esc>^mwgk:silent! s/\v +$//<cr>:noh<cr>`w

" Turn off default regex characters and make searches use normal regexes
nnoremap / /\v
vnoremap / /\v

" Move to beginning and end of line with H and L
onoremap H ^
noremap H ^
noremap L $

" Get rid of search highlights with , space
noremap <silent> <leader><space> :noh<CR>

" The stuff below are some overrides I use and you can safely ignore. Feel free to change if you want though.

" Turn on syntax highlighting
syntax on

" Do not wrap lines
set nowrap

" Disable backups
set nobackup

" Disable swap files
set noswapfile

" Make Vim autoread changed files
set autoread

" Share clipboard with the OS
set clipboard=unnamed

" Set encoding to UTF-8
set encoding=utf-8

" Indentation settings
set linebreak
set tabstop=2
set noexpandtab
set shiftwidth=2
set smartindent

" Prevent zero leading numbers to be interpreted as octal
set nrformats=hex

" Ignore case for searches
set ignorecase

" When you do type an uppercase character, switch to case sensitive search
set smartcase

" Applies substitutions globally on lines
set gdefault

" The lines below work together to highlight search results (as you type)
set hlsearch
set incsearch
set showmatch

" Use many muchos levels of undo
set undolevels=1000

" Don't beep
set noerrorbells