my vimrc and gvimrc

.gvimrc

"" Used for codeschool color theme
color codeschool
set guioptions-=T                                                " Removes top toolbar
set guioptions-=r                                                " Removes right hand scroll bar
set go-=L                                                        " Removes left hand scroll bar
autocmd User Rails let b:surround_{char2nr('-')} = "<% \r %>"    " displays <% %> correctly

" highlight lines longer than 80 chars
highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
match OverLength /\%81v.\+/

set list listchars=tab:→\ ,trail:·

.vimrc

set nocompatible                                    " Choose no compatiblity with legacy vi
syntax enable
set encoding=utf-8
set showcmd
filetype plugin indent on

"" Whitespace
set nowrap                                          " don't wrap lines
set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2                          " a tab is two spaces
set expandtab                                       " use spaces, not tabs
set backspace=indent,eol,start                      " backspace through everything in insert mode


"" Searching
set hlsearch                                        " highlight matches
set incsearch                                       " incremental searching
set ignorecase                                      " searches are case insesitive...
set smartcase                                       " ...unless they contain at least one capital letter

let mapleader=","                                   " map leader to , instead of to slash

"" exiting with ctrl+q
map <C-Q> :qa!<CR>

"" saving with ctrl+s
map <C-S> :w<CR>

" easier navigation between split windows
nnoremap <c-j> <c-w>j
nnoremap <c-k> <c-w>k

set noswapfile                                      " no swap files

" super fast Ack
map <Leader>a :Ack<CR>