diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 66d01465..92da2791 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ sources_non_forked/ack.vim/.netrwhist
 temp_dirs/yankring_history_v2.txt
 sources_forked/yankring/doc/tags
 sources_non_forked/tlib/doc/tags
-my_configs.vim
 tags
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/my_configs.vim b/my_configs.vim
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7782c9f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/my_configs.vim
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+" Basic formatting settings
+set listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
+set list
+" Turn on line numbering
+set number
+syntax on
+colorscheme monokai
+
+" Enable folding
+set foldmethod=indent
+set foldlevel=99
+
+" Adds proper PEP-8 settings for Python files
+au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
+    \ set tabstop=4
+    \ set softtabstop=4
+    \ set shiftwidth=4
+    \ set textwidth=79
+    \ set expandtab
+    \ set autoindent
+    \ set fileformat=unix
+
+au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js, *.html, *.css
+    \ set tabstop=2
+    \ set softtabstop=2
+    \ set shiftwidth=2