.vimrc

" Vim configuration - Andrew Horsman [basicxman]

" Operating system dependent options
if has("win32") || has("unix")
  source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
  behave mswin
endif

if has("win32")
  :cd C:\Users\Andrew
  set guifont=Consolas
endif

" autocmd options
if has("autocmd")
  " Automagically reload vimrc after edit.
  autocmd bufwritepost .vimrc source $MYVIMRC 
  autocmd bufwritepost _vimrc source $MYVIMRC " Windows :|

  " Load indent files for language-dependent indenting.
  call pathogen#helptags()
  call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
  filetype on
  filetype indent on
  filetype plugin on
endif

" gvim options
if has("gui_running")
  set guioptions-=T
endif

" <injekt> In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable
" it.
if has('mouse')
  set mouse=a
endif


" Regular options
" ---------------
set nocompatible  " Who the hell uses vi?
set title         " Set window title
set number        " Line numbering
set showmatch     " Match opening/closing punctuation together
set nobackup      " Git is my backup.
set nowritebackup " Git is my backup.
set foldenable    " Folding <3 (take that injekt!)
set noswapfile    " wurt.
set ruler         " Cursor position!
set noerrorbells  " Annoying as !@#$
set visualbell    " Flashes screen for 20mS instead of error bell.
set cursorline    " Highlight line of cursor (awesome sauce)
set nowrap        " Also annoying.
set splitbelow    " Splitting buffers goes below instead of above
set showmatch     " Matching brackets/braces etc
set nohlsearch    " Highlighting searches are so annoying.
set incsearch     " Incremental searching.

set whichwrap+=<,>,h,l,b,[,] " Backspace and cursor keys wrap back to previous line!
set history=2000             " Command history

" Set map leader for misc normal mode commands.
let mapleader = ","

" Indentation
set autoindent
set smartindent
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=2
set smarttab
set expandtab

" Tab completion
set wildmode=list:longest,list:full

" Themeing
" FYI, Solarized plugin is a massive amount of #winning
syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

" Keyboard shortcuts
nmap <C-t> :tabnew<CR>
imap <C-t> <Esc>:tabnew<CR>
nmap <C-b> :tabclose<CR>
imap <C-b> <Esc>:tabclose<CR>
nmap <C-Tab> :tabn<CR>
imap <C-Tab> <Esc>:tabn<CR>
nmap <C-S-Tab> :tabp<CR>
imap <C-S-Tab> <Esc>:tabp<CR>

nmap <C-d> dd
imap <C-d> <Esc>dd

nmap <C-S> :update<CR>
imap <C-S> <Esc>:update<CR>
vmap <C-S> <Esc>:update<CR>

nmap <Leader>vrc :tabedit $MYVIMRC<CR>
nmap <Leader>nt :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
nmap <Leader>h :split<CR>
nmap <Leader>v :vs<CR>

" Escape alternative
imap <C-space> <Esc>

" Go to end/state of line.
inoremap <S-Right> <Esc>$i
inoremap <S-Left> <Esc>^i

" Sorry, no mercy.
nnoremap <Left> :echoe "Use h!"<CR>
nnoremap <Right> :echoe "Use l!"<CR>
nnoremap <Up> :echoe "Use k!"<CR>
nnoremap <Down> :echoe "Use j"<CR>

Andrew, with your ,foo commands, you should set your mapleader to ',', then you just have to specify <Leader> -- see here. You might also be interested in Pathogen. I use it for grouping everything into the ~/.vim/bundle directory like this. All of those projects are their own git repos, so I can simple issue pulls when I like, and they're all self contained. Then you just have to call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() at the top of your .vimrc

Sweet, thanks!