vim:config:indentation
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VIM - Config - Indentation
The indent features of Vim are very helpful for indenting source code.
:set shiftwidth=2 :set autoindent :set smartindent
NOTE:
- set expandtab allows to replace the tabs by white spaces characters :h 'expandtab'.
- set shiftwidth=2 makes the tabulations be 2 white spaces :h 'shiftwidth'.
- set autoindent: to automatically indent newlines.
- autoindent essentially tells vim to apply the indentation of the current line to the next (created by pressing <enter> in insert mode or with O or o in normal mode.
- set smartindent: reacts to the syntax of the code.
- smartindent reacts to the syntax/style of the code you are editing (especially for C).
- When having it on you also should have autoindent on.
- :help autoindent also mentions two alternative settings:
- cindent and indentexpr, both of which make vim ignore the value of smartindent.
- You could also be interested by by :h 'tabstop' which defines the number of spaces that a tab character in the file counts for.
- As a bonus see :h 'smartindent' and :h 'autoindent' which are pretty useful.
To get help
:help autoindent :help smartindent
References
vim/config/indentation.1665238979.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/10/08 14:22 by peter