" vim kicks some serious arse, kids version 5.3 "Let's get color and syntax highlighting to work, shall we? :if has("terminfo") : set t_Co=8 : set t_Sf=[3%p1%dm : set t_Sb=[4%p1%dm :else : set t_Co=8 : set t_Sf=[3%dm : set t_Sb=[4%dm :endif set background=dark "white text on black background syntax on "syntax highlighting for coding set shm=oa "abbrev mesgs and auto hit RETURN on msgs set noai "auto indent can be evil set showmode "tell me what mode we in set shell=/usr/local/bin/bash "bash shell is keen set wrapmargin=1 "wrap after 79 chars set sw=4 "set shift width to 4 set ts=4 "set tab stop to 4 set et "use spaces for tab key set undolevels=1000 "I like to be able to undo everything "set mouse=a "me no like visual mouse mode for cut and paste ab vioff set nocindent noai nosm noet ab vion set cindent sm ai et ab TM Tom Mutdosch "this is form cut-and-paste between windows when using visual mouse mode vmap ,y :w! ~/.vi_tmp nmap ,p :r ~/.vi_tmp "reformat text when you have wrap margin on and then insert additional text map ,H 1G:set tw=999999gqG:set tw=0 map ,r {:set tw=999999gq}:set tw=0 map ,a {/.\{60,}gq}k "map ,a {gq}k map ,A ^gq}k map ' ` "map the hard-to-hit ` to ' map  "greatest mapping of all time! space pages down map -  "the - pages up map ,s :!ispell % :e % "spell check this file "these are useful when using the Kernigan & Richie programming style (I usually " do). These maps will let you traverse up and down all of the function " declarations quickly (it searches for a '{' at the beginning of a line). map ,f /^\s*{ map ,b ?^\s*{ map ,F /^\s*} map ,B ?^\s*} "useful for when doing / searches, and you want to temporarily disable case map ,I :set noignorecase map ,i :set ignorecase "you can map stuff to the function keys (F2 and F3 here) map #2 :set noai nocindent nosm map #3 :set ai cindent sm map #5 :syntax off map #6 :syntax off "set this stuff up for coding - otherwise it's off "for program files, turn on cindent and showmatch au BufEnter *.h,*.c,*.C,*.cpp,*.java set cindent showmatch "some abbreviations useful whenever coding au BufEnter *.h,*.c,*.C,*.cpp,*.java ab FOR for ( i =0; i < ; i++ ) { au BufNewFile *.h,*.c,*.C,*.cpp,*.java :r ~/.rcstemplate au BufEnter *.java ab Sop System.out.println( au BufEnter *.java ab Sep System.err.println( "Makefile needs actual tabs au BufEnter Makefile,makefile set noet "turn abbreviations off when leaving the buffer "au BufLeave *.h,*.c,*.C,*.cpp,*.java unabbr FOR "au BufLeave *.java unabbr FOR "some colors for syntax highlighting hi Comment ctermfg=cyan hi Constant ctermfg=Magenta hi Special ctermfg=LightRed hi Identifier cterm=bold ctermfg=LightGreen hi Statement ctermfg=Yellow hi PreProc ctermfg=LightBlue hi Type ctermfg=green hi ErrorMsg ctermfg=red "my vim haiku (by unpopular demand!) " "Silent, powerful, "Editing files like crazy, "How I love thee, vim.