On 2021-12-06, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > On So, 05 Dez 2021, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On 2021-11-18, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > Patch 8.2.3615
> > > > Problem: When re-formatting with an indent expression the first line
> > > > of a
> > > > paragraph may get the wrong indent. (Martin F. Krafft)
> > > > Solution: Apply the correct indenting function for the first line.
> > > > (Christian Brabandt, closes #9150, closes #9056)
> > > > Files: src/textformat.c, src/testdir/test_indent.vim
> > >
> > > This new behavior is a bug. It has made vim less useful.
> > >
> > > When I want to format, I want to format. When I want to indent,
> > > I want to indent. I don't want formatting, e.g., gq, to also
> > > indent.
> > >
> > > I frequently have text that I have manually indented to my liking,
> > > and I then want to format it so that the lines are properly wrapped.
> > > I want those lines wrapped according to the current indentation, not
> > > the current indentation rules. If I want it indented according to
> > > the current indentation rules, I will indent it with = first.
> > >
> > > Please fix this.
> >
> > The old behaviour already applied the indenting settings to all lines
> > *except* for the very first line, which caused inconsistent indented
> > lines. The patch simply makes sure to also apply the indenting to the
> > very first line.
> >
> > I was also a bit confused that indenting applied to lines being
> > formatted because I always thought indenting and auto-formatting are
> > some different features. But I believe when auto-formatting and Vim is
> > breaking a very long line, it does make sense to apply the indenting
> > settings to the line being split.
> >
> > Changing this behaviour now may break other users expectations. So I am
> > not sure how to fix this.
>
> I'm not sure why you set up auto-indenting and do not want it to be
> applied. Auto-indenting triggers quite often, especially when adding a
> linke break, since then the indent for the next line has to be decided.
> And the line before is now done, so usually it also needs the indent to
> be recomputed.
>
> I guess the auto-indenting is not doing what you want, so you would need
> to fix how it works.
The way it used to work, the way it worked for as long as I can
remember, was to follow the indentation of the first line. So
I could set the first line to whatever indentation I wanted, then
reformat that line and any subsequent lines to have the desired
indent, text width and comment leader.
Most of the time, Vim's auto-indenting creates the desired
indentation, so most of the time it does do what I want. But there
are exceptions.
Here is a common example in C.
foo()
{
int x; // Here is an end-of-line comment
// beginning at column 41 and
// extending for a few more lines.
If I want to edit that comment after the first line, or change the
indent amount, I could do so and reformat the comment with gq
starting on the second line. The rest of the lines would be aligned
under that line. Now the indentation is shifted to be under the
"int". The only way I know of to correct the indentation is to
shift that line back where I want it, manually find the right place
to break the line, break it there, then reformat the third and
subsequent lines with gq.
Vim used to do most of that for me automatically. At least what it
did helped me and didn't hinder my editing.
Another example is Vim script.
set tw=66 " Comment explaining why 66.
map this that
" Can't put an end-of-line comment on the
" same line as a mapping, so put it here.
I can't reformat that second comment anymore because Vim now insists
on changing the indent.
The indentation rules were pretty simple: Vim chose a place for the
indentation of a line. If I didn't like that place, for whatever
reason, I could move the indentation to where I wanted it. Then
I could reformat that line and any subsequent lines with gq and
everything was good. Now, gq re-indents the first line of the
region, which is not its purpose, and there is no way that I know of
to fix that.
I haven't read the initial discussion recently, but I don't really
understand the problem with the way indentation and formatting used
to work. If I was just typing code or text, they "just worked". If
I needed to change the indentation of something, gq also "just
worked" afterward because it reformatted according to the
indentation of the first line of the region.
My expectation is that the behavior of gq not be broken. Add an
option to set the behavior if you want. Add a plugin to change it
if you want. But don't change the way it has always has always been
in a way that is not an improvement for everyone without a way to
have the traditional behavior.
Regards,
Gary
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