" Let backspace work normally, i.e. allow deleting everything
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" Indentation: automatic and smart, for C-like languages anyway
set autoindent
set smartindent

" Auto save before certain dangerous commands, otherwise confirm
set autowrite
set confirm

" Incrementally search through the file as you type, highlighting as you go
" Searches are also case insensitive if entered in lower-case
" Searches wrap at EOF
set incsearch
set hlsearch
set ignorecase
set smartcase
set wrapscan

" Tabs are no good, use spaces instead 
set expandtab
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2

" Let us know that we are in command/insert mode, and show commands as we type
set showmode       
set showcmd

" Show line numbers and cursor position (rows and cols)
set number
set ruler

" Error bells are the worst
set noerrorbells

" When the cursor is on a bracket/paren/brace, highlight the other one briefly
set showmatch
set matchtime=3

" Spell checking is nice, and so is being able to add words to the dictionary
set spellfile=~/.vim/spellfile.en.add
setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb

" A nice, dark colour scheme, so make things visible and highlight syntax
set t_Co=256
set background=dark
syntax on
colorscheme zenburn

" Remove the GUI toolbar, make options text instead of popups, enable the 
" mouse, and use a good font
set guioptions-=T
set guioptions+=c
set mouse=a
set guifont=Inconsolata\ 10

" Windows should always have a status line
set laststatus=2

" Autowrap text, autowrap comments (and add comment delimiter), recognise 
" white space, and automatically format paragraphs as they are edited, based 
" on the second line of the paragraph rather than the first
" Also set the maximum line length to 78, and wrap longer lines
set formatoptions+=tcwa2
set wrap
set textwidth=78

" I really don't want anything to get folded 
set nofoldenable

" When splitting a window, put the new window below the original one
set splitbelow

" Detect different filetypes, and load appropriate plugins and indent files
filetype plugin indent on

" Remap the default motion keys so long, wrapped, but unsplit lines can be 
" navigated as independent lines
noremap j gj
noremap k gk

" Complete my parens etc for me
inoremap ( ()<ESC>i
inoremap [ []<ESC>i
inoremap { {}<ESC>i

" Make the NERDTree plugin easier to use
map <Leader>f :NERDTree<CR>

" Make the TagList plugin easier to use
map <Leader>t :TlistToggle<CR>

" Make tabs easier to use
map <C-t> :tabnew<CR>
map <C-q> :tabclose<CR>
map <C-Tab> :tabnext<CR>
map <C-S-Tab> :tabprevious<CR>
imap <C-t> <ESC>:tabnew<CR>
imap <C-q> <ESC>:tabclose<CR>
imap <C-Tab> <ESC>:tabnext<CR>
imap <C-S-Tab> <ESC>:tabprevious<CR>

" Make the scratch buffer plugin more useful
map <Leader>s :Scratch<CR>

" Filetype-specific abbreviations and shortcuts....
au FileType c ab #i #include
au FileType c ab #d #define

au FileType html inoremap <p> <p></p><ESC>hhhi
au FileType html inoremap <div> <div></div><ESC>hhhhhi

" For makefiles, let's just use tabs
autocmd FileType make set noexpandtab