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+" No Compatibility. That just sucks
+" especially annoying on redhat/windows/osx
+set nocompatible
+set backspace=indent,eol,start
+
+" My PC is fast enough, do syntax highlight syncing from start
+autocmd BufEnter * :syntax sync fromstart
+
+" Some File Type Stuff
+" --------------------
+"  Enable filetype plugins and indention
+filetype on
+filetype plugin on
+
+" Enable Syntax Colors
+" --------------------
+"  in GUI mode we go with fruity and Monaco 12
+"  in CLI mode desert looks better (fruity is GUI only)
+syntax on
+if has("gui_running")
+  colorscheme industry 
+  " set guifont=Monaco:h12
+else
+  colorscheme desert
+endif
+
+" Automatische Einrückung (Globale Konfiguration)
+set smartindent
+set smarttab
+
+" UTF-8 als Default-Encoding
+set enc=utf-8
+
+" Ein Tab entspricht vier Leerzeichen (wie in PEP 8 definiert)
+" Dies aber nur für python, damit es nicht mit anderen (ruby, c, Makefiles) kollidiert
+autocmd FileType python setlocal expandtab shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 softtabstop=4
+
+" enable mouse
+set mouse=nvc 
+
+" systags
+set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete
+set tags+=~/.vim/systags
+
+" relativenumber
+set relativenumber
+set number