Why is line continuation is indented with 12 spaces in vimscript?

Question

let b:some = {
            \ 'some',
            \ 'array',
}

This makes code ugly IMHO, how can I change that and should I change that? Is that some coding style or something in vimscript?

Also, is there a plugin that would (I think I had one, but I don't know which one) would expand <CR> like delimitMate with inserting appropriate number of spaces and \?

Answer 1

You can change the amount of that indentation by setting the variable g:vim_indent_cont, e.g.,

:let g:vim_indent_cont = &sw

See

:help ft-vim-indent