" get out of VI's compatible mode..
set nocompatible

" sets how many lines of history VIM has to remember
set history=400

" set to auto read when a file is changed from the outside
set autoread

" have the mouse enabled all the time:
set mouse=a

" show cursor position
set ruler

" the commandbar is 1 high
set cmdheight=1

" set backspace
set backspace=eol,start,indent

" backspace and cursor keys wrap to
"set whichwrap+=<,>,h,l

" ignore case when searching
set ignorecase
set incsearch

" set magic on
set magic

" allow highlighting search words
set hlsearch

" tab size is 4 spaces
set ts=4

" indent is 4 spaces
set shiftwidth=4

set expandtab

" default font
set guifont=DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono\ 9

" show line numbers
set number
set relativenumber

" automatically indent on line break
set autoindent

" automatically fold on indents
" set foldmethod=indent

" set colors to 256 for terminal VIM
set t_Co=256

" dark background
set background=dark

" nyummy wombat colours
colorscheme wombat

" enable plugins
filetype plugin on

" highlight syntax
syntax on

" allow a 7-line verticle buffer for the cursor
set so=7

" turn backup off
set nobackup
set nowb
set noswapfile

" auto indent
set ai

" smart indet
set si

" wrap lines
set wrap

" break wrap at words
set lbr

" clipboard for mac OSX
" set clipboard=unnamed

"map <D-c> :w !pbcopy<CR><CR>
"map <D-v> :r !pbpaste<CR>
"vmap <C-c> y:call system("pbcopy", getreg("\""))<CR>

" show whitespace
":set listchars=eol:¬,tab:>·,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:␣
":set list