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+"Copyright (c) 2015 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+"All rights reserved.
+"
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+"
+" Authors: Anthony Gutierrez
+
+
+"this vimrc file helps users follow the gem5 style guide see:
+"www.gem5.org/Coding_Style
+"it highlights extraneaous whitespace and tabs (so you can easily remove
+"them), sets column length to a max of 78 characters, expands tabs, and sets
+"a tab width of 4 spaces.
+
+"*NOTE 1* this doesn't guarantee that your code with fit the style guidelines,
+"so you should still to double check everything, but it helps with a lot of
+"tedious stuff.
+
+"*NOTE 2* if you do actually NEED to use a tab, e.g., in a Makefile, enter
+"insert mode and type ctrl-v first, which will make tabs behave as expected
+
+filetype indent on "auto indenting
+set tabstop=4 "tabs = 4 spaces
+set shiftwidth=4 "auto indent = 4 spaces
+set expandtab "expand tabs to spaces
+set tw=78 "max cols is 78
+
+"highlight extrawhite space with light blue background
+highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=lightblue guibg=lightblue
+match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$\|\t/
+
+"stuff to prevent the light blue highlighting from showing up at the end of
+"lines when you're in insert mode. i.e., everytime you enter a space as you're
+"entering text the highlighting will kick in, which can be annoying. this will
+"make the highlighting only show up if you finish editing and leave some extra
+"whitespace
+autocmd BufWinEnter * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$\|\t/
+autocmd InsertEnter * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+\%#\@<!$\|\t\%#\@<!/
+autocmd InsertLeave * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$\|\t/
+autocmd BufWinLeave * call clearmatches()
+
+
+"optionally set a vertical line on column 79. anything on, or after the line
+"is over the limit. this can be useful as set tw=78 won't breakup existing
+"lines that are over the limit, and the user can also do certain things to
+"make lines go past the set textwidth, e.g., joining a line (shift-j or J)
+
+"if exists('+colorcolumn')
+"    set colorcolumn=79
+"endif
+
+"set spell
+"set listchars=tab:›\ ,trail:•,extends:#,nbsp:.