set nocompatible "Use the Vim defaults, supposedly much nicer? set background=dark "We like the background dark set backspace=2 "I think we need this for the backspace to act as exspected "set ruler "Turn on the row/col display on the info bar set showmatch set smarttab "shiftwidth and tabstop set out tabs ;) set shiftwidth=3 set tabstop=3 set cindent set esckeys set hidden set showmatch "Show matching brackets set ignorecase "Ignore case for searchs set mouse=a "Set the mouse, a=auto? always? "set ch=1 "Set the hight in lines of the command line set incsearch "incsearch || noincsearch "we like it though. set nohlsearch "search pattern highlighting "You can set your status line here (duh), this is also the same as ch=1, ruler set statusline=%f\ %h\ %y%=%lL,\ %cC\ %p%%\ \ syntax on "Turn on syntax Highlighting filetype plugin indent on " For matchit ? highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=white highlight Cursor guibg=grey50 guifg=black highlight NonText guibg=NONE highlight Constant gui=NONE guibg=NONE highlight Special gui=NONE guibg=NONE "Some key mappings "This is to map the Shift-Insert to paste ;) map map!