.vimrc

" activates filetype detection
filetype plugin indent on

" activates syntax highlighting among other things
syntax on

" The width of a TAB is set to 4.
" Still it is a \t. It is just that
" Vim will interpret it to be having
" a width of 4.
set tabstop=4

" Indents will have a width of 4
set shiftwidth=4

" Sets the number of columns for a TAB
set softtabstop=4

" Expand TABs to spaces
set expandtab

" set leader to comma
let mapleader=","

" turn line numbers on
set number

" change line number colour
" highlight LineNr term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkGrey ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=DarkGrey guibg=NONE

" allow line highlighting
"cterm=NONE ctermbg=darkred ctermfg=white guibg=darkred guifg=white
"hi CursorLine
"hi CursorColumn
nnoremap <Leader>c :set cursorline! cursorcolumn!<CR>

" visual autocomplete for command menu
set wildmenu

" highlight matching [{()}]
set showmatch

" highlight matches
set hlsearch

" turn off search higlight
nnoremap <leader><space> :nohlsearch<CR>

" fix backspace issue on macs
set backspace=indent,eol,start

set background=dark
" solarized options 
" let g:solarized_visibility = "high"
" let g:solarized_contrast = "high"
" let g:solarized_termcolors=256
" colorscheme solarized
" 

" toggle set paste
set pastetoggle=<F9>

" Toggle relative and absolute line numbers
function! NumberToggle()
  if(&relativenumber == 1)
    set nornu
  else
    set rnu
  endif
endfunc

nnoremap <C-n> :call NumberToggle()<cr>

set noruler
set laststatus=0
set statusline="%f %l"