VIMRC options that i really like

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

• 
  First we need to find your colorscheme directory: locate desert.vim
  if you system does not have locate installed: find / -name "desert.vim"
  
  the result may look something like this: /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/desert.vim
  copy desert256.vim or jellybeans.vim to the same directory 
  for example: cp desert256.vim /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/
  

• "Dave's display tweaks
  set t_Co=256               "force term to 256 colors
  "colorscheme desert256     "Nice pastel colorscheme, good on dark monitors
  colorscheme jellybeans     "Nice pastel colorscheme, good on dark monitors
  "background=dark           "The desert256 or jellybeans colorschmes makes this unneccesary
  syntax enable              "Enable syntax hilighting (for programming/etc)
  set hlsearch               "Highlight searchs
  set title                  "Set xterm title to file vi has open
  set ruler                  "show the ruler all the time (ctrl-J)
  set tabstop=3 expandtab    "Use spaces for tabs, and set default to 3 spaces
  
  "Dave's functionality tweaks
  set directory=/dev/shm/    "to keep swapfiles out of dropbox.com directories
  set paste                  "always be in paste mode, no wraping pastes
  set foldmethod=marker      "set how the folds are done
  set iskeyword+=_,$,@,%,#,- "none of these chars should be word dividers
  set incsearch              "auto jump to partially matched searchs
  set showmatch              "match a closing or opening brace/parenthese/bracket
  set ffs=unix               "always open files as unix, that way you see dos \r\n