r4meau-vimrc-42

" Lets you press F6 to add the standard 42 header to your file
nnoremap <F6> :Stdheader<CR>

" Sets UTF-8 encoding
set enc=utf-8
set fenc=utf-8
set termencoding=utf-8

" Disables vi compatibility (emulation of old bugs)
set nocompatible

" Uses indentation of previous line
set autoindent

" Uses intelligent indentation for C
set smartindent

" Shows line numbers
set number

" Sets a ruler at line 80
set colorcolumn=80

" Lets you change the ruler color
" Change the value of ctermbg to any other color code you want
" The colors range from 0 (black) to 250 (white)
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=39

" Removes all trailing whitespace by pressing F5
" If you want to understand how it works, read this:
" http://vi.stackexchange.com/a/2285
nnoremap <F5> :let _s=@/<Bar>:%s/\s\+$//e<Bar> :let @/=_s<Bar><CR>

" turn syntax highlighting on
set t_Co=256
syntax on

" highlight matching braces
set showmatch

" intelligent comments
set comments=sl:/*,mb:\ *,elx:\ */

" Read syntax-highlighted man pages inside Vim by running :Man
" In the 'First step in C' video, he uses emacs to open Man from his editor
" You will be able to do the same just by doing, for example:
" :Man 2 write
runtime! ftplugin/man.vim

Hey guys, I found this page useful when it comes to browsing around vim, maybe it will be for you too:
https://dzone.com/articles/130-essential-vim-commands

Thx !