Example .vimrc

.vimrc

syntax on
filetype plugin on

" Enable autocomplete
set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete

" General defaults
" ===================

set expandtab     " use spaces for tabs
set nowrap        " don't wrap lines
set tabstop=2     " a tab is two spaces
set backspace=indent,eol,start
                  " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set autoindent    " always set autoindenting on
set smartindent   " copy the previous indentation on autoindenting
set copyindent    " copy the previous indentation on autoindenting
set number        " always show line numbers
set shiftwidth=2  " number of spaces to use for autoindenting
set shiftround    " use multiple of shiftwidth when indenting with '<' and '>'
set showmatch     " set show matching parenthesis
set ignorecase    " ignore case when searching
set smartcase     " ignore case if search pattern is all lowercase,
                  "    case-sensitive otherwise
set smarttab      " insert tabs on the start of a line according to
                  "    shiftwidth, not tabstop
set hlsearch      " highlight search terms
set incsearch     " show search matches as you type

set title         " change the terminal's title

set nobackup
set noswapfile

" Allows toggling into paste mode
set pastetoggle=<F2>


" Spell checking
" ===================

" Enable spell checking. F6 to turn on, F7 to turn off again
map <F6> <Esc>:setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb<CR>
map <F7> <Esc>:setlocal nospell<CR>

:set spellfile=~/.vim/dict.add


" Formatting
" ===================

" Use Q for formatting the current paragraph (or selection)
" This means that shift+q will auto wrap in both visual and normal modes
vmap Q gq
nmap Q gqap

" Quick alignment of text
nnoremap <leader>al :left<CR>
nnoremap <leader>ar :right<CR>
nnoremap <leader>ac :center<CR>

" Show leading whitespace that includes spaces, and trailing whitespace.
":autocmd BufWinEnter * match ExtraWhitespace /\s+$/


" Commit editing
" ===================

" Custom function to toggle actions when interactively rebasing
function RebaseActionToggle()
    let line = getline(".")
    let result = matchstr(line, "^\\a")
    let transitions = {'p': 'squash', 's': 'edit', 'e': 'fixup', 'f': 'reword', 'r' : 'pick'}
    execute "normal! ^cw" . transitions[result]
    execute "normal! ^"
endfunction

autocmd FileType gitrebase map <Cr> :call RebaseActionToggle()<Cr>
autocmd FileType gitcommit setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb


" Colours
" ===================

hi LineNr         ctermfg=240 ctermbg=234


" Syntax highlighting
" ===================

" Highlight adp files as HTML
au BufRead,BufNewFile {*.adp} set filetype=html