.vimrc

" Set the colorscheme - desert fo life
colorscheme desert

" Set tab behavior
set expandtab     " Expand tabs into spaces
set tabstop=4     " Four spaces, to be exact
set shiftwidth=4  " Width of auto-ident 

" Other display settings
set ruler       " show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd     " display incomplete commands
set incsearch   " do incremental searching
set colorcolumn=81 "Highlight the 81st column


" Use a blinking upright bar cursor in Insert mode, a blinking block in normal
if &term == 'xterm'
    let &t_SI = "\<Esc>[5 q"
    let &t_EI = "\<Esc>[1 q"
endif

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  set hlsearch
endif

" Disable the arrow keys
map <Up> ""
map <Down> ""
map <Left> ""
map <Right> ""