" General

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" Sets how many lines of history VIM has to remeber.

set history=500

" Set to auto read when a file is changed from the outside.

set autoread

" user interface

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" always show current position

set ruler

" Ignore case when searching

set ignorecase

" Highlight search results

set hlsearch

" Show matching brackets

set showmatch

" sounds off

set noerrorbells

set novisualbell

" Colors and Fonts

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" utf8 as standard encoding

set encoding=utf8

" User unix as a standard file type

set ffs=unix,dos,mac

" Text, Tab and Indent

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" Use spaces instead of tabs

set expandtab

" 1 tab = 4 spaces

set shiftwidth=4

set tabstop=4