" we want Vim, not Vi.
set nocompatible

" our editing settings 
set bg=light
set guifont=-bitstream-bitstream\ vera\ sans\ mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-80-*-*-m-*-iso8859-15
" syntax highlighting is most cool
syntax on

" nice backspace behaviour
set bs=2

" autowrap at column 78
set textwidth=78

" funky search highlight/autogoto
set hlsearch
set incsearch

" status bars for all windows, even if there is only one window
set laststatus=2
" where we are in the file
set ruler

set autoindent

" some tag-highlighting features
map <F11> :sp tags<CR>:%s/^\([^	:]*:\)\=\([^	]*\).*/syntax keyword Tag \2/<CR>:wq! tags.vim<CR><F12>/^^<CR>
map <F12> :so tags.vim<CR>

" set the path for include-searching
set path=.,/opt/kde3/include,/opt/qt3/include,/usr/local/include,/usr/include