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+" Editing options
+" No tabs, shiftwidth 4, tabstop 4
+set shiftwidth=4
+set tabstop=4
+set expandtab
+
+" Automatic indentation of code blocks
+set autoindent
+
+" Allow backspace to delete charaters, indentation & lines
+set backspace=indent,eol,start
+
+" Enable syntax highlighting
+syntax enable
+syntax on
+
+" Search options
+" Enable search highlighting
+set hlsearch
+
+" Miscellaneous options
+" Show status line
+set laststatus=2
+
+" Set status to show all details (File name, type, character under cursor,
+" Column, row, total lines, row/lines%)
+set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ %y\ [\%03.3b/0x\%02.2B]\ [%v,%l/%L]\ [%p%%]
+
+" Set the cursorline option
+" This (by default shows up as underlining)
+set cursorline
+
+" Show line number
+set number
+
+" xterm title inherited from vim
+set title
+
+" Folding
+set foldenable
+set foldmethod=syntax
+
+" Perl folding
+let perl_want_scope_in_variables = 1
+let perl_extended_vars = 1
+let perl_string_as_statement = 1
+let perl_no_sync_on_sub = 1
+let perl_no_sync_on_global_var = 1
+let perl_sync_dist = 100
+let perl_fold = 1
+let perl_fold_blocks = 1
+let perl_nofold_packages = 1
+let perl_nofold_subs = 1