.vimrc

"   This is the personal .vimrc file of Nickson Kaigi. 
"   While much of it is beneficial for general use, I would
"   recommend picking out the parts you want and understand,
"   as I have done from other notable vim purists
"

set nocompatible                "Use Vim settings, rather than Vi settings
                                "Be IMproved

filetype off                    "required!

" I use Vundle https://github.com/gmarik/vundle as my
" preferred plugin manager.... never got the hang of
" vim-pathogen (no offence to the pathogen community)
"
"
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
call vundle#rc()

Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
Bundle 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe' 
Bundle 'sophacles/vim-bundle-mako'
Bundle 'bling/vim-airline'
Bundle 'walm/jshint.vim'

filetype plugin indent on       "required!

set backspace=indent,eol,start  "allow backspacing over everything in insert mode

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 nu                          "show line numbers

set expandtab                   "use spaces instead of tabs

set tabstop=4                   "insert 4 spaces whenever the tab key is pressed

set shiftwidth=4                "set indentation to 4 spaces

set hlsearch                    "highlight search terms

set ic                          "Ignore Case during searches

set autoindent                  "start new line at the same indentation level

syntax enable                   "syntax highlighting

set cmdheight=1                 "The commandbar height

set showmatch                   "Show matching bracets when text indicator is over them

set nobackup                    " do not keep backup files, it's 70's style cluttering

set noswapfile                  " do not write annoying intermediate swap files,
                                "    who did ever restore from swap files
                                "    anyway?
                                "    https://github.com/nvie/vimrc/blob/master/vimrc#L141


" VIM airline config

set laststatus=2                " Solves: statusline does not appear until I create a split

set noshowmode                  " Get rid of the default mode indicator 

let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1   " Use powerline symbols

set t_Co=256                    " Force Vim into 246 color mode, to display airline colors

let g:arline_theme = 'light'    " Self explanatory

" End of airline configs

colorscheme peachpuff           " Original colorscheme on the bash shell... I got used to it

set ttimeoutlen=50              "Solves: there is a pause when leaving insert mode

" highlight characters past column 80
augroup vimrc_autocmds
    autocmd!
    autocmd FileType python highlight Excess ctermbg=DarkGrey guibg=Black
    autocmd FileType python match Excess /\%80v.*/
    autocmd FileType python set nowrap
augroup END

set splitbelow                  " Horizontal splits open below current file

set splitright                  " Vertical splits open to the right of the current file

set wildmode=longest,list       " Pressing <Tab> shows command suggestions similar to pressing <Tab>
                                " in bash 

" Mappings to traverse buffer list 
nnoremap <silent> [b :bprevious<CR>
nnoremap <silent> ]b :bnext<CR>
nnoremap <silent> [B :bfirst<CR>
nnoremap <silent> ]B :blast<CR>

"Easy expansion of the active file directory
cnoremap <expr> %%  getcmdtype() == ':' ? expand('%:h').'/' : '%%'

"Shortcut to Mute Highlighting
nnoremap <silent> <C-l> :<C-u>nohlsearch<CR><C-l>