Expand the short hand, do some additional clean up

Also added a line to always show the status line, similar to the one
thing I liked about NeoVim

vim/.vimrc

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ if empty(glob('~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim'))
     \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
 endif
 
+" A humble list of plugins
 call plug#begin()
   " Solarized, without the bullshit
   Plug 'romainl/flattened'
@@ -23,26 +24,37 @@ call plug#begin()
   Plug 'ruanyl/vim-gh-line'
 call plug#end()
 
+" Color scheme and syntax highlighting
 syntax on
 color flattened_dark
 set background=dark
-
 " Ensures misspellings are highlighted
-hi SpellBad ctermfg=white ctermbg=red
-
-set ai et si sts=2 sw=2 ts=2
-set cc=80,100,120
-set hid
-set hls ic is
-set nu rnu
+highlight SpellBad ctermfg=white ctermbg=red
 
+" Global settings
+set autoindent
+set colorcolumn=80,100,120
+set expandtab
+set hidden
+set hlsearch
+set ignorecase
+set incsearch
+set laststatus=2
+set number
+set relativenumber
+set shiftwidth=2
+set smartindent
+set softtabstop=2
+set tabstop=2
 set undofile
 
-autocmd FileType php,python setl sts=4 sw=4 ts=4
-autocmd FileType gitcommit,markdown,text setl nosi spell
-autocmd FileType gitcommit setl cc=50,72 tw=72
-autocmd FileType markdown,text setl tw=80 wm=2
+" Filetype-specific settings
+autocmd FileType gitcommit setl colorcolumn=50,72 textwidth=72
+autocmd FileType gitcommit,markdown,text setl nosmartindent spell
+autocmd FileType markdown,text setl textwidth=80 wrapmargin=2
+autocmd FileType php,python setl shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=4
 
+" Strip trailing whitespace on save
 autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
 
 " Set the runtime path for fzf based on OS