" syntax highlighting
syntax on

" todo: experiment with colour schemes
"colorscheme elflord

" might help vim cope with random terminals and colours
" by reminding it that the background is dark
set background=dark

"set expandtab converts tabs to spaces

set ffs=unix
set encoding=utf-8
set fileencoding=utf-8
set listchars=eol:¶,tab:>-,space:.,extends:$,precedes:^
set list

" tabs are 4 spaces
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4

" when indenting a line with >, you still want four spaces
set shiftwidth=4

"line number highlighting
set cursorline
hi CursorLine cterm=none
highlight CursorLineNR ctermbg=red

" note that this doesn't work here
" so have to do the above instead
"highlight clear CursorLine

" allow mouse to change cursor position
set mouse=a

" line numbers
set number

" This block here executes the Vim Explorer on startup, opening the
" current directory tree in a small pane to the left
" note that you will have to exit twice to get back to the prompt
" or just append a so :wqa
let g:netrw_banner = 0
let g:netrw_liststyle = 3
let g:netrw_browse_split = 4
let g:netrw_altv = 1
let g:netrw_winsize = 10
augroup ProjectDrawer
  autocmd!
" pipe wincmd w to autofocus the buffer
" instead of the directory tree
  autocmd VimEnter * :Vexplore | wincmd w
augroup END

" use line numbers relative to cursor position
" set relativenumber

" credit https://dev.to/aturingmachine/how-i-vim-4ha6