Gary,
Thanks for the response - see below:
On 2014-06-06 01:59, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2014-06-06, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I have been using vim for a long time but finally got bored hitting
TAB to do indenting on code - I tried to work out why "smart
indenting" after the usual stuff "for", "class" etc wasn't working
but couldn't see what the problem was. I found out that Fedora 20 is
installing Vim 7.4 and all that stuff should "work out of the box" -
I renamed my .vim dir and .vimrc file and still no difference. I
logged in as a basic user with no .vim or .vimrc and still no joy . .
Can someone enlighten me? I must be missing something no?
"Smart indenting" isn't all that smart. My understanding is that it
was an attempt to improve Vim's indenting capabilities but it never
acquired enough knowledge of real programming languages to be really
useful.
From the little I have seen of people using "modern" editors (eg a
friend using "Atom") that seems like it might be right . .
Use Vim's "automatic indenting" instead. See
:help 30.3
:help :filetype
Thanks for that.
which boils down to putting this line in your ~/.vimrc:
filetype indent on
Now it should "just work". There can be situations where it
doesn't, though, as when you edit programs written in a language
that Vim doesn't recognize, so if it doesn't work for you, come back
with an example and we'll see what we can do to help.
OK, so to be clear, now I have:
- my .vim dir renamed to something else
- a single line in my .vimrc file of:
filetype indent on
and yes, now when I edit a test Ruby file, it does indeed do the
automatic indenting but the automatic indent is a tab space - I thought
the convention with Vim 7.3+ was two spaces?
If I add "filetype indent on" to my previous .vimrc, the autoindent
shows only four spaces on the screen but it is still a tab character.
Some progress though - thanks!
Phil.
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