set nocompatible " choose no compatibility with legacy vi syntax on set encoding=utf-8 set showcmd " display incomplete commands filetype plugin indent on " load file type plugins + indentation "" Whitespace set nowrap " don't wrap lines set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 " a tab is 4 spaces set expandtab " use spaces, not tabs set backspace=indent,eol,start " backspace through everything in insert mode autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e " Trim whitespace on file save "" Searching set hlsearch " highlight matches set incsearch " incremental searching set ignorecase " searches are case insensitive... set smartcase " ... unless they contain at least one capital letter "" Code Editing Stuff set number ""set cursorline "" Copy and paste vnoremap "+y map "+P "" Misc set mouse=a set ttyfast set backupdir=~/.cache/vim colorscheme vim