" Don't make any effort to be compatible with vi, use more sensible settings
set nocompatible

" Use UTF-8 by default wherever possible, including in this file
if has('multi_byte')
  set encoding=utf-8
  scriptencoding utf-8
endif

" Load configuration files from ~/.vim/config or its analogue, before Pathogen
" loads all its directories into 'runtimepath'
runtime! config/*.vim

" If our version isn't ancient and Pathogen is available, call it to load all
" the plugins in .vim/bundle; these are saved as submodules
if v:version >= 701
  silent! call pathogen#infect()
  silent! call pathogen#helptags()

  " With the plugins loaded, we might now be able to use my custom colorscheme
  if has('syntax')
    silent! colorscheme sahara
  endif
endif