[Brandon Martus]

I use(d) 'syntax on' at work for a while, but with our version of vim, it seemed to mess up when you would page through many pages of code. You'd have to go all the way up to the top of the file for it to reset its syntax highlighting. Other than that little fluke, I liked it.

I also like 'set showmatch' which will make the cursor temporarily jump to the opeining parenthesis/brace/bracket/etc you are currently closing.