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COLORSCHEME 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/vim73/colors/desert.vim
  
  copy desert256.vim or jellybeans.vim to the same directory 
  cp desert256.vim /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/
  
  On newer systems you can copy it to ~/.vim/colors/
  

• set nocompatible          "Allows us to do fancy stuff like rulers
  
  "display tweaks
  "--------------
  set t_Co=256              "Force term to 256 colors
  colorscheme jellybeans    "Nice pastel colorscheme, desert or desert256 is ok also
  syntax enable             "Enable syntax hilighting (for programming/etc)
  set hlsearch              "Highlight searchs
  set title                 "Set xterm title to file vim has open
  set ruler                 "show the ruler all the time (ctrl-J)
  
  " Spaces and tabs
  " ---------------
  set tabstop=4             "Use 4 spaces instead of actual tab char
  set expandtab             "Expand actual tab chars into 4 spaces
  set shiftwidth=4          "When using < > to shift blocks of code, shift 4 spaces
  filetype plugin indent on "Based on filetype, change the indent amount/style
  
  " Functionality tweaks
  " --------------------
  set directory=/dev/shm//,/run/shm//,/tmp//,.   "keep swapfiles out of dropbox.com
  set backupdir=/dev/shm//,/run/shm//,/tmp//,.   "keep backup files out of dropbox.com
  
  " UI tweaks
  " ---------
  set pastetoggle=<F2>   " switch between paste and no paste
  set foldenable         " Enable Folding
  set foldlevel=0        " Default all folds to closed
  "set foldmethod=expr   " Set how folds are done: indent,manual,syntax,diff,expr
  set foldmethod=marker  " Set how folds are done: indent,manual,syntax,diff,expr
  nnoremap <space> za    " Enable folding with the spacebar
  set incsearch          " Auto jump to partially matched searchs
  set showmatch          " Match a closing or opening brace/parenthese/bracket
  set iskeyword+=_,$,@,%,#,-     " None of these chars should be word dividers
  
  " Make things quiet
  " -----------------
  set noerrorbells   " No beep occurs when an error message is displayed
  set t_vb=          " No bell, prevents lag when cursoring too far right or left
  
  " Timestamp Remap Macros for insert(ino) and normal(nno) modes
  " ------------------------------------------------------------
  nnoremap <F5> "=strftime("%c")P
  inoremap <F5> =strftime("%c")