editing

" Editing options
syntax on       " turn on syntax highlighting
set relativenumber      " show relative line numbers
set showbreak=+ " display a + at the beginning of a wrapped line
set showmatch   " flash the matching bracket on inserting a )]} etc
set showmode

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

""" FIXME: everything works as expected without these, I'm sure
"""        that I'm just missing something
"set cindent    " c-style language indentation
set autoindent " automatically indent new lines
set smartindent " automatically indent new lines

" for most code, use 4 space indents. specific filetypes are overridden
" in filetypes.vimrc
set softtabstop=2 " most of the time, we want a softtabstop of 4
set shiftwidth=2  " shift by 4 spaces when using >> and <<, etc
set shiftround
set expandtab     " no tabs, just spaces kthx.
set wrap " prevent text wrapping

" Using autocmd for this allows it to be reset every time you open a
" file, which keeps overrides from being persistent
autocmd FileType * set softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab

set list                     " show whitespace
set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· " show tabs and trailing spaces
set listchars+=extends:»     " show a » when a line goes off the right
                             " edge of the screen
set listchars+=precedes:«    " show a « when a line goes off the left
                             " edge of the screen

" Search options
set ignorecase " makes search patterns case-insensitive by default
set smartcase  " overrides ignorecase when the pattern contains
               " upper-case characters
set incsearch  " incremental search. 'nuf said
set gdefault   " assume the /g flag on :s to replace all matches in a line
set hlsearch   " do highlight previously searched phrases

let g:snippets_dir = '~/.vim/snippets'