On 06/06/09 17:38, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> While editing an html file, when I hit return, the lines gets reformatted
> automatically.
>
> 1) Why is this happening
>
> 2) how do I prevent it?
>
> 3) what are all the things I can tweak so that the
> automated reformatting happens the way I like it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Suresh
The indent/html.vim script defines an 'indentexpr' option, which takes
up indenting in a way that I too find much too "we know better what is
good for you". When I came to Vim some years ago (Vim 6.1 was "latest"
then), it was the thing which irritated me most, until I found out that
it was due to an 'indentexpr' option and that adding
filetype indent off
(just after sourcing the vimrc_example.vim script) cures it.
Alternately, if you don't source the example script but have the line
filetype plugin indent on
in your vimrc, remove "indent", leaving the rest.
This, of course, will disable auto-indenting for _all_ filetypes. If,
instead, you want to disable it _only_ for HTML pages, add the line
let b:did_indent = 1
in either a FileType autocommand for the html filetype, or (on Windows)
a ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/html.vim script (on Unix, replace ~/vimfiles/ by
~/.vim/, and on any platform, create the directories and/or the file if
they don't yet exist).
If what disturbs you is more than "just" autoindenting, you will have to
look at the 'formatoptions' setting. Display it with
:verbose setlocal fo?
while editing an HTML page, so it will also tell you where it was last
set. But don't modify ANYTHING in the tree starting at $VIMRUNTIME,
because any Vim upgrade may (and sooner or later one will) reverse any
changes there without warning. Instead, if one of the scripts under
$VIMRUNTIME includes something that you don't like, you can override it
by writing something elsewhere, usually in a script in a directory in
one of the other trees mentioned in the 'runtimepath' (or 'rtp' for
short) option.
"All the things you can tweak" may include even more than what I
mentioned above. The |options.txt| helpfile and/or the :options command
may help you find most of them.
Best regards,
Tony.
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