On Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:39:32 PM UTC-6, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Do, 12 Dez 2013, Ben Fritz wrote: > > Perhaps you are using a language whose comments start with a '#' > > character, and that # is in the first column, and you have either > > 'cindent' or 'smartindent' set? If all this is the case, then by > > default Vim will not indent the line with >. I think cinoptions can > > fix that, but C-like languages don't normally use # as a comment, so a > > better option would probably be just turning off cindent or > > smartindent. > > Vim can only since 7.4.069. Before that, # lines were considered as > #defines and it was not possible to shift those lines right. >
Thanks, Christian. I wasn't sure whether you meant that they would never indent, or whether you meant they would never indent if 'smartindent' or 'cindent' was set. I launched an old 7.3.969 I had laying around to try it out, it appears you can still indent with > as long as 'smartindent' and 'cindent' are both off. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
