Questions tagged [indentation]
Prefixing lines with whitespace to aid in readability.
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Autoindentation in .tex files
I use Vim to write Latex code and I would like to have autoindent when adding environments.
I am aware of the smartindent capabilities that can be toggle on and off by inspecting the $VIMRUNTIME/...
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What option controls how much space is added after a new line?
When I set tw vim will auto wrap lines at tw. When breaking that line vim usually places some spaces to keep the indentation of the previous line. Example
foo
bar<suppose that a wrap happens ...
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Vim ignores `filetype indent off`
I don't have a personal vimrc. I use /etc/vimrc. The last 2 lines are:
let testvar=999
filetype indent off
I confirmed execution at the vim prompt using :echo testver, which displays 999.
I tried ...
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Create a mapping for a “smart” Home key
With other text editors, if you press Home, it first takes you to the indent,
then all the way to the left.
Is this possible with Vim?
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Pasting text on Vim inside tmux breaks indentation
Ubuntu: 18.04 bionic
tmux: version 2.6
VIM: Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Jun 06 2019 )
Included patches: 1-1453
Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Compiled by pkg-vim-...
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Auto-indent after carriage return after line containing open curly brace
I recently upgraded my Cygwin from a 2015 installation (5 years ago) to the current "2020" version. Gvim now automatically indents by shiftwidth columns when I press return after a curly brace { on a ...
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How to delete entry from indented argument from list?
Let's say with the cursor I'm on b in
def f(a=1,
b=2,
c=3,
e=4
)
and we want to delete the whole argument including the line break, so that we get
def f(a=1,
c=3,
...
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What is necessary to properly indent shell scripts with gg=G?
I was editing a small configure script and noticed that vim's indentation of the file was not working properly. A sample of the original source follows:
while getopts 'dgSsx' opt; do
case $opt ...
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Pressing Enter removes indentation
If I have a file a.js like this:
let a1 = [
];
and I press Enter at the end of the first line, a Tab is inserted. I do not want this, so I added a setting:
filetype indent off
but then if I have ...
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How to disable auto-indentation while using vim-multiple-cursors?
I got familiar with vim-multiple-cursors recently and really enjoyed using this tool but one issue ruined the joy of using this plugin for me!
To put it in a context, consider having an HTML file and ...
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Keeping indent (like breakindent) when using hard wrap with textwidth
I know the breakindent option works with linebreak to preserve indent on wrapped lines. However, when I want to hard wrap lines (using the textwidth option so <EOL> is inserted when a line ...
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What vim setting determines the amount of indentation change by pressing > or < (greater than or less than)? [duplicate]
For me the > and < are set to 8 spaces. I would like them to be set to 4 spaces. What setting corresponds to this?
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How to indent text between specific line numbers in vim?
Let's say I want to indent everything between lines 40 and 60 (both lines included). One way of doing this is to go to line 40 and indent 21 lines:
:40
21>>
I am slightly bothered by having to ...
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Why does my line indent?
Please see line 20 and 21:
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 ...
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Vim highlighting random indentations
As seen from the image, Vim decides to highlight those indentations for no reason. I've tried :noh and :set nolist (:set list seems to make it go away, but I don't want indentation marks) from a ...
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How to set custom shortcut in vim?
I want to make use of Shift+Tab to left-shift (unindent) a block of text, instead of Ctrl+d. How to do it?
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Paste into a new line and preserve indentation
I want a mapping that does it.
Apparently, it is not that simple.
Because first, it might decide to keep it commented when I press o.
And it behaves differently if it was copied by yy, insists adding ...
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Fix indentation in a file while keeping cursor on the same line
I'd like to use vim's builtin indent fix feature on an entire file. I have looked up answers, but all I found were suggestions to type gg=G, the only problem being that it brings your cursor to the ...
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Keep indentation after multiple newlines
I've got a problem where in insert mode, if I type something like { that will cause indentation, then press enter twice, then match that bracket (such that there is a line in between the opening and ...
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insert new bullet point in autoindent mode
with autoindent mode on, when writing a short bullet point on restructuredtext file:
- item one
~
Then I press Enter, and I get:
- item one
~
but I whould like to quickly by here:
- ...
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Smart and auto indent not indenting as expected for JSX
I'm trying to figure out how to get vim to correctly indent the next line in a JSX block.
Currently when I press enter, the cursor goes slightly behind where it should be. In the example below, my ...
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Why is the commit message inside parentheses wrapped so strangely?
I sometimes need to do some remarks in parentheses in my commit message's detailed part. But when the parenthesized text comes to the rightmost column and is line-broken, the next line for some reason ...
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gq in visual mode indents just first two lines of enumeration
Some markdown as an example. I select the following paragraph in visual mode and press gq. The result is:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor ...
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Override indentation settings with autocmd
When editing Typescript neovim automatically sets indentexpr=GetTypescriptIndent(). I don't like the way it aligns to
an open brace instead of inserting a (soft) tab or two, but it doesn't seem to be ...
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Artificial indenting with shift+insert [duplicate]
When I paste via SHIFT+INSERT, vim create artificial indent per line.
How can I paste without any indenting?
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What setting causes my autoindent to add indent on a new line?
I have this go code snippet that I am working on in vim with vim-go enabled. | is where my cursor is at.
// PlayerServer is a HTTP interface for player information
type PlayerServer struct {
...
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Find and replace only between searched patterns
Editing large HTML file. Would like to do something like:
:/<blockquote>/,/<\/blockquote>/s/^\(\s\s\+\)\(<[^>].\{-}>\)/\1 \2/g
So basically just trying to indent all between ...
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How to have the cursor at the right indentation when editing PHP/HTML
When I'm working with HTML in a PHP file and I press enter while in INSERT mode, my cursor goes to the start of the next line instead of going at the right positive therefore I have to press tab to ...
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Where can I find good indentation file for lex filetype?
I checked and found only a syntax file for lex filetypes in /usr/share/nvim/runtime/syntax, but found no indent file in /usr/share/nvim/runtime/indent
I want my lex files to be properly indented; one ...
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Format / Indent c++ as you type inside expressions
In visual studio, that code :
for(int x=0;x<10;x++)
{}
becomes that code :
for (int x = 0; x < 10; x++)
{
}
as soon as you hit enter.
I was wondering, is it possible, and if so, how can I ...
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Why does vim still auto-indent LaTeX after I set noai noci nosi?
I want to disable autoindent and smartindent for LaTeX so I did
:set noai noci nosi
When I open a brand new mwe.tex, filetype=plaintex and there is no auto indent magic.
When I then enter some code,...
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How to move a cursor to the last line with auto indent?
Assume autoindent is set, and you have the buffer below. Note the cursor is represented as I.
for i in range(1, 6):
print(i)I
When you hit Enter key, you get this.
for i in range(1, 6):
...
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How to get the right indentation and new line when adding a new line between brackets? [duplicate]
So I am curious about one thing:
when I am between two brackets ({) in vim (or nvim), and I press Enter I go from this (where the pipe sign is the cursor):
getUsers(){|}
to this:
getUsers(){
|}
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How to indent or unindent lines in a block of text?
I use two spaces in my indentation of codes. What are the possible ways to indent or unindent a block of code?
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Plugin to show enclosing indentation levels
I'm looking for functionality which may or may not exist. Basically, I'd like to have a location list split at the top of each writable buffer which shows the last line of each enclosing indentation ...
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vim disable behavior special tags (eg script)
When editing html, vim applies different rules when inside certain tags (like script/pre/style). I want to have the normal html rules when inside a script tag (using handlebars, and I don't write any ...
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'filetype plugin indent on' breaks indention [closed]
Using vim 8.*, I am using these plugins:
html5.vim
polymer-ide.vim
supertab
vim-javascript
In my vimrc.local file if I enable filetype plugin indent on it breaks my javaScript indention but makes the ...
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How to make a newline without autoindent
Is there a command to make a newline without the autoindent? In other words, I want o and O to normally autoindent, but is there another command that will not autoindent for just the duration of that ...
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How to indent HTML5 with omitted closing tags properly?
I try writing some HTML5 with omitted closing tags in NVIM v0.3.4, and get this:
<ol>
<li>3
<li>4
<li>8
<li>9
</ol>
This ...
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Match indentation upon newline without replacing spaces with tabs or vice versa
When I create a new line or hit o I have Vim configured to match the previous indentation.
However, since I use hard tabs in most places, vim will replace any spaces that are greater than or equal to ...
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Indent text to beginning of line
Sometimes I'll have some text with an arbitrary indentation.
Sample text.
If I want to bring this text back to the beginning of the line, I'll visually select the line and then ...
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Multi-line array variable in bash with filetype sh does not indent correctly
I have the following bash array after automatic indentation, both on pressing carriage return when was editing in :h Insert mode and doing =ip on the block in :h Normal-mode
DOTFILES=(
".bashrc"
"....
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How can I reindent/prettyify blocks of HTML code?
I've got a lot of HTML files, some of them with garbage indentation.
How can I select a block, and then prettify/reindent the HTML within, adding in newlines where appropriate? I can install any ...
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How do I get Vim (with TComment) to do proper block comments in OCaml?
(I have TComment installed, and I'm on NeoVim 0.4.0.)
Given this code, for example:
let mem key st =
let is_matching_key = function
| Positional _ -> false
| Flag f -> f.name == key
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Substitute tabs for equivalent number of spaces
N.B I use the word blank here due to lack of a better word. By blank I mean the remaining part of a tab that is visualized after the starting part. Please feel free to edit this question.
I know ...
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In PHP files, how can I auto close HTML tag pairs and indent the new line?
I have been a Vim user for several years now and I haven't been able to find a solution to this issue. There have been a lot of questions on the internet that try to address it, but none of the ...
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How to visually select based on indentation?
If someone is editing the following javascript file:
let foo = true
if (foo) {
let bar = 42
// moooooore code...
}
You can use vi{ anywhere on the line with let bar to select let bar = 42 and ...
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inoremap inserts unwanted tabs
I recently made myself custom insert mode keybindings to type faster in LaTeX. However, When I use them, Vim adds tabs that weren't part of the original keybinding.
Example:
Here is my inoremap:
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What is valid use case for `smartindent`?
I might not have discovered everything about it, but the smartindent option has given me much more trouble than usefulness. For example, it indents a line beginning with for or if, and won't shift a ...
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Indenting a c file adds spaces before function's type?
Open a c file and then type:
int
main
and then hit:
gg=G
It becomes
int
main
Is this an intended behavior? Is there a way to change this? I prefer it to be retained as is because most ...
