set nocompatible                            " Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
set backspace=indent,eol,start              " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set noautoindent	                 	    " always set autoindenting off (turning this on WILL mess up pasting, but is still cool)
set backupdir=~/.vim/tmp//                  " store backups here (// means use full path to files)
set directory=~/.vim/tmp//                  " store swap files here (// means use full path to files)
set nobackup    		                    " do not keep a backup file, use versions instead
set history=50	     	                    " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler		                            " show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd		                            " display incomplete commands
set incsearch	    	                    " do incremental searching
set nohlsearch                              " don't highlight my searching please
set shiftwidth=4                            " number of spaces to autoindent
set tabstop=4                               " we want tabs to be this many spaces
set softtabstop=4
set expandtab		                        " Expand my tabs
set smarttab
set noerrorbells		                    " Hearing beep every 2 seconds isn't my idea of fun
set showmatch			                    " Show matching brackets, sure, why not
set showmode                                " Make sure we know whether we're INSERT-ing or REPLACE-ing
set laststatus=2
"set statusline=[%n]\ %f\ %(\ %M%R%H)%)

" ack is better than grep... duh
set grepprg=ack\ --nocolor\ --nogroup\ '$*'\ *\ /dev/null

" color information
set background=dark                         " My ssh session background is black
colorscheme calmar256-dark                  " http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1807

let mapleader=","                           " I forget why I added this

" not sure if these mappings for the numpad are needed any longer
map! Oq 1
map! Or 2
map! Os 3
map! Ot 4
map! Ou 5
map! Ov 6
map! Ow 7
map! Ox 8
map! Oy 9
map! Op 0
map! Ol +
map! On .
map! OM 

" Abbreviations for my common typos
cab Q! q!
cab WQ wq
cab Wq wq

augroup blah
" automatically source the .vimrc file if I change it
" the bang (!) forces it to overwrite this command rather than stack it
  au! BufWritePost .vimrc source %

" Automatically source in my blank html file template locally.
  au BufNewFile *.htm 0r ~/.vim/blank.htm
  au BufNewFile *.html 0r ~/.vim/blank.htm

" same for Perl scripts except position the cursor at the bottom ready to start typing.
  au BufNewFile *.t 0r ~/.vim/skeleton.pl|normal G
  au BufNewFile *.pl 0r ~/.vim/skeleton.pl|normal G
  au BufNewFile *.pm 0r ~/.vim/skeleton.pm|normal gg " cursor at top
augroup END

call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on