.vimrc

set title           " Title enabled in terminal bar
set ls=2            " always show status
set hlsearch        " highlight search results
set tags=tags;      " Recursively find tagfiles

nnoremap <F5> :tabedit 
nnoremap <F6> :tabp<CR>
nnoremap <F7> :tabn<CR>
nnoremap <F8> :tabclose<CR>

set number          " linenumbers
set showcmd         " show incomplete commands

" Colouring details
set background=dark	" Set fg colours for a dark bd
syntax on			" enable syntax highlighting

" Tab details
set tabstop=4       " 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 shiftwidth=4    " Indents will have a width of 4
set softtabstop=4   " Sets the number of columns for a TAB
set expandtab       " Expand TABs to spaces
set autoindent
set cc=120
set textwidth=120

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.html setlocal softtabstop=2 | setlocal tabstop=2 | setlocal shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.cpp setlocal softtabstop=2 | setlocal tabstop=2 | setlocal shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile Makefile setlocal noexpandtab