set nocompatible

" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

" Colorscheme see https://github.com/hukl/Smyck-Color-Scheme
color smyck

" Add line numbers
set number
set ruler

" Set encoding
set encoding=utf-8

" Whitespace stuff
set nowrap
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab

" Show trailing spaces and highlight hard tabs
set list listchars=tab:»·,trail:·

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

" Strip trailing whitespaces on each save
fun! <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()
    let l = line(".")
    let c = col(".")
    %s/\s\+$//e
    call cursor(l, c)
endfun
autocmd BufWritePre * :call <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()

" Search related settings
set incsearch
set hlsearch

" Map Ctrl+l to clear highlighted searches
nnoremap <silent> <C-l> :<C-u>nohlsearch<CR><C-l>

" Highlight characters behind the 80 chars margin
:au BufWinEnter * let w:m2=matchadd('ColumnMargin', '\%>80v.\+', -1)

" Disable code folding
set nofoldenable

" Directories for swp files
set backupdir=~/.vim/backups
set directory=~/.vim/backups

" make uses real tabs
au FileType make set noexpandtab

" add json syntax highlighting
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.json set ft=javascript

" make Python follow PEP8 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ )
au FileType python set softtabstop=4 tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 textwidth=79

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