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Please see line 20 and 21:

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My question is about how vim decides to auto-indent line 21, and how to adjust that behaviour.

When I took this screenshot I had formatoptions=qrn1a set, however I believe even without a set, if I format using ggqG or gqip, for example, the same thing happens.

I have many options set, pertaining to text formatting, and it's not clear to me which is doing that and why.

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    Often it is useful to narrow them down by disabling them all and systematically re-enabling. Could depend on the filetype of the buffer as well. – D. Ben Knoble Dec 7 '19 at 3:31
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    Also: Please don't post images of text – D. Ben Knoble Dec 7 '19 at 3:31
  • @D.BenKnoble The only point in that article that stands out to me is the accessibility issue, and fair enough. In this case a graphical representation of what was happening was helpful and relevant. In any case, is there a standard (text) format that represents hidden characters such as spaces? If I were to represent that picture in ASCII, how would you suggest doing it, exactly? I doubt for example that screen-reading software reads out 'space space space space space space'. – Harv Dec 11 '19 at 23:17
  • if you need more than just accessibility, you should read this, which I did link to in the article. Standard? Probably not, though I would love to configure reading software to do that—anyone who codes with such software probably has to. You could always just pick a character and say "blah represents space"... – D. Ben Knoble Dec 11 '19 at 23:31
  • I had read that, and most of it doesn't apply to the image I posted. I didn't post code, the image is clear, the file size minimal, nobody would need to copy/paste it, etc. As I said, the only really compelling reason I could find was accessibility, and I suppose in case anyone uses this site with images disabled. I'm not trying to be difficult, I just take issue with any claim that what I did was inappropriate or should be discouraged. Contextually I think it made sense. – Harv Dec 12 '19 at 0:35
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I eventually figured out it was cindent.

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