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scriptencoding utf-8
" ^^ Please leave the above line at the start of the file.
" Written by Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
" Modified by Ryan Phillips <rphillips@gentoo.org>
" Modified some more by Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
" Added Redhat's vimrc info by Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org>
" You can override any of these settings on a global basis via the
" "/etc/vim/vimrc.local" file, and on a per-user basis via "~/.vimrc". You may
" need to create these.
" {{{ General settings
" The following are some sensible defaults for Vim for most users.
" We attempt to change as little as possible from Vim's defaults,
" deviating only where it makes sense
set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults (much better!)
set bs=2 " Allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set ai " Auto-indenting off to allow pasting to work by default
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command history
set ruler " Show the cursor position all the time
set noexpandtab
set ts=4 sw=4
set viminfo='20,\"500 " Keep a .viminfo file.
" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
map Q gq
" When doing tab completion, give the following files lower priority. You may
" wish to set 'wildignore' to completely ignore files, and 'wildmenu' to enable
" enhanced tab completion. These can be done in the user vimrc file.
set suffixes+=.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.out,.o,.lo
" When displaying line numbers, don't use an annoyingly wide number column. This
" doesn't enable line numbers -- :set number will do that. The value given is a
" minimum width to use for the number column, not a fixed size.
if v:version >= 700
set numberwidth=3
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Modeline settings
set modeline
" }}}
" {{{ Locale settings
" Try to come up with some nice sane GUI fonts. Also try to set a sensible
" value for fileencodings based upon locale. These can all be overridden in
" the user vimrc file.
if v:lang =~? "^ko"
set fileencodings=euc-kr
set guifontset=-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
elseif v:lang =~? "^ja_JP"
set fileencodings=euc-jp
set guifontset=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
elseif v:lang =~? "^zh_TW"
set fileencodings=big5
set guifontset=-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1,-taipei-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-160-big5-0
elseif v:lang =~? "^zh_CN"
set fileencodings=gb2312
set guifontset=*-r-*
endif
" If we have a BOM, always honour that rather than trying to guess.
if &fileencodings !~? "ucs-bom"
set fileencodings^=ucs-bom
endif
" Always check for UTF-8 when trying to determine encodings.
if &fileencodings !~? "utf-8"
" If we have to add this, the default encoding is not Unicode.
" We use this fact later to revert to the default encoding in plaintext/empty
" files.
let g:added_fenc_utf8 = 1
set fileencodings+=utf-8
endif
" Make sure we have a sane fallback for encoding detection
if &fileencodings !~? "default"
set fileencodings+=default
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Syntax highlighting settings
" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Terminal fixes
if &term ==? "xterm"
set t_Sb=^[4%dm
set t_Sf=^[3%dm
set ttymouse=xterm2
endif
if &term ==? "gnome" && has("eval")
" Set useful keys that vim doesn't discover via termcap but are in the
" builtin xterm termcap. See bug #122562. We use exec to avoid having to
" include raw escapes in the file.
exec "set <C-Left>=\eO5D"
exec "set <C-Right>=\eO5C"
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Filetype plugin settings
" Enable plugin-provided filetype settings, but only if the ftplugin
" directory exists (which it won't on livecds, for example).
if isdirectory(expand("$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin"))
filetype plugin on
" Uncomment the next line (or copy to your ~/.vimrc) for plugin-provided
" indent settings. Some people don't like these, so we won't turn them on by
" default.
" filetype indent on
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Fix &shell, see bug #101665.
if "" == &shell
if executable("/bin/bash")
set shell=/bin/bash
elseif executable("/bin/sh")
set shell=/bin/sh
endif
endif
"}}}
" {{{ Our default /bin/sh is bash, not ksh, so syntax highlighting for .sh
" files should default to bash. See :help sh-syntax and bug #101819.
if has("eval")
let is_bash=1
endif
" }}}
" {{{ Autocommands
if has("autocmd")
augroup gentoo
au!
" Gentoo-specific settings for ebuilds. These are the federally-mandated
" required tab settings. See the following for more information:
" http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml
" Note that the rules below are very minimal and don't cover everything.
" Better to emerge app-vim/gentoo-syntax, which provides full syntax,
" filetype and indent settings for all things Gentoo.
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.e{build,class} let is_bash=1|setfiletype sh
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.e{build,class} set ts=4 sw=4 noexpandtab
" When editing a file, always jump to the last cursor position
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if ! exists("g:leave_my_cursor_position_alone") |
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line ("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal g'\"" |
\ endif |
\ endif
" When editing a crontab file, set backupcopy to yes rather than auto. See
" :help crontab and bug #53437.
autocmd FileType crontab set backupcopy=yes
" If we previously detected that the default encoding is not UTF-8
" (g:added_fenc_utf8), assume that a file with only ASCII characters (or no
" characters at all) isn't a Unicode file, but is in the default encoding.
" Except of course if a byte-order mark is in effect.
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if exists("g:added_fenc_utf8") && &fileencoding == "utf-8" &&
\ ! &bomb && search('[\x80-\xFF]','nw') == 0 && &modifiable |
\ set fileencoding= |
\ endif
augroup END
endif " has("autocmd")
" }}}
" We don't want VIM to load their own built-in defaults, preferring ours here
" instead:
let g:skip_defaults_vim = 1
" {{{ vimrc.local
if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local")
source /etc/vim/vimrc.local
endif
" }}}
autocmd Syntax * syn match ExtraWhitespace /\S\s\+$/
set listchars=tab:>-,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<
set list
function! PasteFriendly()
if &list
setlocal nolist noai
echom "Whitespace visibility and auto-indent disabled for easier copy/paste."
else
setlocal list ai
echom "Whitespace visibility and auto-indent enabled for easier editing."
endif
endfunction
function! Foo()
if ! &list && ! &ai
return "on "
else
return "off"
fi
endfunction
nnoremap <F3> :call PasteFriendly()<CR>
inoremap <F3> <C-o>:call PasteFriendly()<CR>
cnoremap <F3> <C-c>:call PasteFriendly()<CR>
set laststatus=2
set statusline= " clear the statusline for when vimrc is reloaded
set statusline+=%-3.3n\ " buffer number
set statusline+=%f\ " file name
set statusline+=%h%m%r%w " flags
set statusline+=[%{strlen(&ft)?&ft:'none'}, " filetype
set statusline+=%{strlen(&fenc)?&fenc:&enc}, " encoding
set statusline+=%{&fileformat}] " file format
set statusline+=%=\ [F3]:\ PasteMode\ %{Foo()}\ \ \ " right align
set statusline+=%-14.(%l,%c%V%)\ %<%P " offset
hi Comment ctermfg=cyan
hi SpecialKey ctermfg=darkblue
hi StatusLine term=reverse ctermbg=white ctermfg=darkblue gui=undercurl guisp=Magenta
" vim: set fenc=utf-8 tw=80 sw=2 sts=2 et :
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