vim specific indentation for markdown

Question

I want the indentation in markdown file as follows

 - [ ] Here is some text. When I press enter
 - [ ] <--- This entire thing should get populated. 

It means - [ ] should be copied onto the next line. I have tried setting comments variable in vim to accommodate the indentation for the same. I have tried installing multiple markdown plugins, but they don't seem to fix the indentation issue. Is there anyway we could do this ?

I would also be great if someone knows a plugin which could accomplish this too.

NOTE:- It should also work for nested lists as well.

Answer 1

A plugin that will accomplish what you are looking for is vim-orgmode. This will let you check and uncheck boxes in a convenient way.

You should also be able to achieve (most of) the functionality in question using Vim comments. Try clearing your comment settings if necessary

:set comments=

then doing

:set formatoptions+=cro
:set comments+=:-\ [\ ] 

Note the backslashes before the spaces, which you were probably missing. This will handle nested lists automatically based on the indent.