My budding .vimrc

.vimrc

" Show line numbers
set number

" Use hard tabs, render as four spaces
set noexpandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set softtabstop=4
set tabstop=4
set autoindent

" Underline the current line, but only in the current window
set cursorline
autocmd WinEnter * setlocal cursorline
autocmd WinLeave * setlocal nocursorline

" Make use of the terminals titlebar
set title

" Keep some context in view
set scrolloff=3

" Where am I?
set ruler

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  set hlsearch
endif