syntax on   " syntax highlighting on
set lines=40   " window size:

" no menu, and no toolbar:
set guioptions-=m
set guioptions-=T

set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ignorecase " Do case insensitive matching
set incsearch " Incremental search
set matchtime=10 " Time to flash the brack with showmatch
set showmatch " Show matching brackets.


set sw=2
set ts=2

set expandtab     "use spaces instead of tabulators"
set smarttab

set modeline
set modelines=5

set ai			" always set autoindenting on "
set backup		" keep a backup file "
set backupdir=d:\home\tmp\vim\backup
set directory=d:\home\tmp\vim\swap

set ruler		" show the cursor position all the time

" moving up and down as in emacs
cmap <C-P> <Up>
cmap <C-N> <Down>

" Suffixes that get lower priority when doing tab completion for filenames.
" These are files I am not likely to want to edit or read.
set suffixes=.bak,~,.o,.info,.swp,.obj

" windows tab swapping, opening, closing like Firefox
map <C-Tab> :tabn <CR>
map <C-S-Tab> :tabp <CR> 
map <C-t> :tabnew<CR> 
map <C-w> :tabclose<CR>