.vimrc

" James McGuire's .vimrc 
set nocompatible

" Make backspace behave in a sane manner.
set backspace=indent,eol,start

" set the colorscheme to something sane
set t_Co=256
colorscheme ron

" sets backups/swap files to a central location
set backup
set backupdir=~/.vim/backup
set directory=~/.vim/tmp

" tabs -> 4x spaces
set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4

" Switch syntax highlighting on
syntax on

" Enable syntax highlighting/etc based on filetype
filetype plugin indent on

" Add line numbers and give them a dark background
set number

" Add a dark gray background to the line numbers
highlight LineNr ctermbg=235

" add line numbers/position
" set number
set ruler

" EOF