> > Fortunately, he specifically said "VIM", not Vi. > > > > Vim is a very nice improvement over traditional Vi that can do, among a > > great many other things, syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. > > > > Gavin -- what happens if you just put > > > > set autoindent > > > > in your ~/.vimrc ? Does that not work ? > > > > Hi Chris, this is what I have in ~/.vimrc > > " Turn off vi compatibility settings like limited undo > set nocompatible > " Syntax highlighting based on file extension > syntax on > " Automatically insert newlines after 80 characters > set textwidth=80 > " Automatically indent > set autoindent > " Match SGML tags with % > source $VIMRUNTIME/macros/matchit.vim >
Not sure of the difference but I use 'smartindent' instead of 'autoindent' (check the vim docs for specifics)... I have as part of my .vimrc, " perform indenting smartly :set smartindent :set expandtab :set tabstop=4 :set shiftwidth=4 I also assume that you have the Perl syntax file and have loaded it? I should probably put mine online too, but I am terribly lazy :-). http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
