Hi,

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've searched old indenting posts but not yet found the answer I seek
> to this one.
> When I'm editing code and press enter, it maintains my indent level as
> it adds a new line.
> If I press escape, it removes that whitespace, presumably to avoid
> having lines with nothing but whitespace - and that's great.  But when
> I want to recommence coding on that blank line, I'd like an easy way
> of regaining the indentation it had before I pressed escape.
> My first thought was to try added Shift-A to cinkeys, so it would
> reindent the line before appending do it - but I couldn't get this to
> work.
> I could write a mapping I imagine, to check if the line is empty, and
> if so delete it and go to the end of the previous line and 'press
> enter' - but I figured vim might have a better solution.
>

You can press CTRL-F in insert mode to re-indent the current line.
This is described in the following help topic:

  :help i_CTRL-F

- Yegappan

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