I use Vim primarily for editing C source files. The feature that
automatically repeats the comment marker, "//", at the start of a new line
in insert mode is great.
Unfortunately, what I suspect is a related characteristic is not so great.
Several times now I've been editing a line that begins with a multiply
symbol, "*", separated by a space from the variable name that follows. When
I press Enter I get a multiply symbol at the start of the next line. This
isn't a major annoyance when I'm entering new code because it's readily
noticeable, but when I'm reformatting existing code it's very easy to
overlook and can create some highly unwanted results. Recently this happened
and I didn't catch it. The result was an infinite loop that cost about two
man-days to find.
Here's an example:
someVariable = (someOtherVariable + stillSomeOtherVariable)
* (someOtherVariable - stillSomeOtherVariable)
* - someVariable * someOtherVariable;
^
^
Vim inserted the leading '*' automagically
Does anyone know if there's a way to limit the automatic insertion of
characters at the beginning of a line to just the comment sequence? Short of
that, maybe somebody knows what setting controls this behavior?
-- Jay
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