small vimrc for quick setup

.vimrc

" Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

" Make backspace behave in a sane manner.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Switch syntax highlighting on
syntax on

" show location of cursor using a horizontal line
set cursorline

" line numbers
set number

" highlight search results
set hlsearch 

" show matching brackets when text indicator is over them
set showmatch

" always show status line
set laststatus=2

" Enable file type detection and do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin indent on

set encoding=utf8


" Text, tab, and indent settings
set autoindent cindent
set expandtab		" use spaces instead of tabs
set shiftwidth=4	" 1 tab == 4 spaces
set tabstop=4		" 1 tab == 4 spaces
set smarttab
set wrap 	        " soft-wrap lines. Move up/down into wrapped lines with "gj" and "gk"