Vimrc

Fancy Symbols for tabs and eol

" Use the same symbols as TextMate for tabstops and EOLs
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬

Python space tweaks

" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands
if has("autocmd")
  " Enable file type detection
  filetype on
 
  " Syntax of these languages is fussy over tabs Vs spaces
  autocmd FileType python setlocal ts=3 sw=3 ai
 
  " Treat .rss files as XML
  autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.rss setfiletype xml
endif

Medium Mode

" disable the arrow keys you wimp
noremap <Up> <NOP>
noremap <Down> <NOP>
noremap <Left> <NOP>
noremap <Right> <NOP>