~/.vimrc

.vimrc

" Enable filetype plugins
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on

" Highlight search results
set hlsearch

" Show matching brackets when text indicator is over them
set showmatch
" How many tenths of a second to blink when matching brackets
set mat=2

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" => Colors and Fonts
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" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax enable

colorscheme desert
set background=dark

" Set extra options when running in GUI mode
if has("gui_running")
    set guioptions-=T
    set guioptions+=e
    set t_Co=256
    set guitablabel=%M\ %t
endif

" Set utf8 as standard encoding and en_US as the standard language
set encoding=utf8

" Use Unix as the standard file type
set ffs=unix,dos,mac

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" => Files, backups and undo
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" Turn backup off, since most stuff is in SVN, git et.c anyway...
set nobackup
set nowb
set noswapfile

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" => Status line
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" Always show the status line
set laststatus=2

" Format the status line
set statusline=\ %F%m%r%h\ %w\ \ CWD:\ %r%{getcwd()}%h\ \ \ Line:\ %l\ Column:\ %c

" Enable line numbering
set number

" Set whitespace character visibility
set list
set list listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,extends:>,eol:¶

" Set right margin ("color column")
set cc=72