My default .vimrc

.vimrc

" Peter's .vimrc, borrowing heavily from
" http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Example_vimrc

" Set 'nocompatible' to ward off unexpected things that your distro might
" have made, as well as sanely reset options when re-sourcing .vimrc
set nocompatible

" Attempt to determine the type of a file based on its name and possibly its
" contents. Use this to allow intelligent auto-indenting for each filetype,
" and for plugins that are filetype specific.
filetype indent plugin on

" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax on

" Autosaves to hidden file
set hidden

" Show partial commands in the last line of the screen
set showcmd

" Highlight searches (use <C-L> to temporarily turn off highlighting; see the
" mapping of <C-L> below)
set hlsearch

" Use case insensitive search, except when using capital letters
set ignorecase
set smartcase

" Allow backspacing over autoindent, line breaks and start of insert action
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" When opening a new line and no filetype-specific indenting is enabled, keep
" the same indent as the line you're currently on. Useful for READMEs, etc.
set autoindent

" Stop certain movements from always going to the first character of a line.
" While this behaviour deviates from that of Vi, it does what most users
" coming from other editors would expect.
set nostartofline

" Display the cursor position on the last line of the screen or in the status
" line of a window
set ruler

" Always display the status line, even if only one window is displayed
set laststatus=2

" Instead of failing a command because of unsaved changes, instead raise a
" dialogue asking if you wish to save changed files.
set confirm

" Enable use of the mouse for all modes
set mouse=a

" Set the command window height to 2 lines, to avoid many cases of having to
" "press <Enter> to continue"
set cmdheight=2

" Display line numbers on the left
set number

" Quickly time out on keycodes, but never time out on mappings
set notimeout ttimeout ttimeoutlen=200

" Use <F11> to toggle between 'paste' and 'nopaste'
set pastetoggle=<F11>

" Indentation settings for using hard tabs for indent. Display tabs as two characters wide.
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=2
set cindent
set autoindent
set smartindent

" Map Y to act like D and C, i.e. to yank until EOL, rather than act as yy, which is the default
map Y y$

" Map <C-L> (redraw screen) to also turn off search highlighting until the next search
nnoremap <C-L> :nohl<CR><C-L>

" Set the title so I know which file I'm editing
set title

" Use system clipboard by default
set clipboard=unnamed

" Recognize unusual filetypes
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.module set filetype=php
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.install set filetype=php
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.scss set filetype=scss
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.sass set filetype=sass

" Colors
set t_Co=256
color jellybeans