> Tim Chase said on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:37:10 -0500 > > >On 2023-06-13 21:18, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Using grep, I found there are no files whose names contain the string > >> "pascal" in any case in the ~/.vim directory (I'm using Void Linux). > >> > > > >I suspect your frustration is being caused by something in > >$VIMRUNTIME/indent/pascal.vim > > Correct: ~/.vim/indent didn't exist, so I followed your instructions... > > > > >As such, you should be able to do something like (optionally putting > >your settings in there, too) > > > > $ mkdir -p ~/.vim/indent > > $ cat >> ~/.vim/indent/pascal.vim <EOF > > let b:did_indent = 1 > > set ai > > set expandtab > > set tabstop 3 > > set shiftwidth 3 > > EOF > > The preceding worked. Now I can tab and Ctrl+d or Ctrl+t for > *space-only* indentation of three spaces in insert mode. Naturally, > I can use << and >> in command mode. It's beautiful. Vim doesn't try to > guess what I want in indentation: It lets me do it manually, which is > just what I want.
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