Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-11-02 Thread Keith Beattie
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic vi that would handle multiple buffers and color indent his programs Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an oxymoron. :) I don't use vim (obviously) but using one of

auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-10-31 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. Is there a variant of vi that can do this? vim claims to hilite syntax, and i think elvis claims that too, but can

RE: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-10-31 Thread Shaleh
vim does syntax hi lighting quite well. Having never used emacs, I have no idea what you mean by auto indenting. On 31-Oct-98 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it

Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-10-31 Thread Jon Skelton
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. Try the following command... :set autoindent this works for me for general

Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-10-31 Thread chandran
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. I feel your pain. There is a solution. rick, who'd be happy as a