Nell's vimrc

nell_vimrc

" Configuration file for vim

" Some additional configs that Nell prefers
set number
syntax on

" Normally we use vim-extensions. If you want true vi-compatibility
" remove change the following statements
set nocompatible	" Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility
set backspace=indent,eol,start	" more powerful backspacing

" Now we set some defaults for the editor
set autoindent		" always set autoindenting on
set textwidth=0		" Don't wrap words by default
set nobackup		" Don't keep a backup file
set viminfo='20,\"50	" read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more than
			" 50 lines of registers
set history=500		" keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler		" show the cursor position all the time
set number
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set et

function! <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()
  " Preparation: save last search, and cursor position.
  let _s=@/
  let l = line('.')
  let c = col('.')
  " Do the business:
  %s/\s\+$//e
  " Clean up: restore previous search history, and cursor position
  let @/=_s
  call cursor(l, c)
endfunction

" Suffixes that get lower priority when doing tab completion for filenames.
" These are files we are not likely to want to edit or read.
set suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc

" We know xterm-debian is a color terminal
if &term =~ "xterm-debian" || &term =~ "xterm-xfree86"
  set t_Co=16
  set t_Sf=%dm
  set t_Sb=%dm
endif

" Make p in Visual mode replace the selected text with the "" register.
vnoremap p <Esc>:let current_reg = @"<CR>gvdi<C-R>=current_reg<CR><Esc>

" Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next
" line enables syntax highlighting by default.
syntax on

" Debian uses compressed helpfiles. We must inform vim that the main
" helpfiles is compressed. Other helpfiles are stated in the tags-file.
set helpfile=$VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt.gz

if has("autocmd")
 " Enabled file type detection
 " Use the default filetype settings. If you also want to load indent files
 " to automatically do language-dependent indenting add 'indent' as well.
 filetype plugin on
 autocmd BufWritePre * call <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()

endif " has ("autocmd")

" Some Debian-specific things
augroup filetype
  au BufRead reportbug.*		set ft=mail
  au BufRead reportbug-*		set ft=mail
  au BufRead *.cl set ft=c
augroup END

" The following are commented out as they cause vim to behave a lot
" different from regular vi. They are highly recommended though.
"set showcmd		" Show (partial) command in status line.
set showmatch		" Show matching brackets.
"set ignorecase		" Do case insensitive matching
"set incsearch		" Incremental search
"set autowrite		" Automatically save before commands like :next and :make