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Strange auto indent in Javascript in HTML

When writing Javascript in HTML, vim insists on autoindenting like this: if( dur.match(/:/) ) { let xs = dur.split(":") if( xs.length > 3 ) ...
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Wrong indentation in brackets

How can I change the automatic indentation inside brackets? Without any configuration, {vim,nvim} does the following: test = [| # Press enter test = [ | # Cursor ends up here, at the same ...
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How do I tell (*Neovim*) that `.ipynb` files have 1 space indents, so indent guides are correctly shown?

I'm using the Indent Blankline plugin to show indent guides. My Jupyter Notebook/.ipynb files have 1 space indents. Vim identifies them as JSON files. One way to tell Neovim that Jupyter Notebook ...
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Indentkeys Tab behavior

I want to have something similar to EMACS tab behavior (described in help indentkeys-format) but I still want to be able to input more tabs if I want. I thought that adding !0<Tab> to indentkeys/...
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Why does <esc> on empty, indented line, jump to beginning?

I'm trying to do something very simple, enter normal mode and ALWAYS be able to somehow put the normal mode cursor where it was in insert mode, whether through a mark, or otherwise. I'm doing this ...
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How to allow manual folds with indent folds defined?

I want to be allowed to create any folds at all, but I also want Vim to generate all the indent-based folds for me so that I can still use indent-based folding. Is there some way to mix indent-based ...
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How to fix indentation for *.nix files?

How can I tell Neovim not to ignore characters after // as well as treat (space) in lists as separator when it comes to indentation? Closing }; below users.root should be two characters to the ...
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How can I make (Neo)Vim wrap lines in respect to indentation?

Currently, indented lines will wrap all the way to the left of the text area. This is what they look like: This is a long line of text that is indented wi th tabs. In order for it to properly fit ...
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What could be causing this indent behavior?

In Typescript files, when I create enums I have a comma at the end of each line. enum thing { first = 'first', | // <--- when I press enter the cursor goes here } When I :set shiftwidth=...
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Trouble in overriding `indentexpr` in neovim

Say I do not quite like the shipped Lua indentexpr (GetLuaIndent(), defined in $VIMRUNTIME/indent/lua.vim). With vim, I can disable or change it using this minimal configuration: ~ % cat .vimrc ...
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How to turn off auto indenting while editing a LaTeX file?

I edit a LaTeX file, and for some commands Vim does auto indenting. I would like to switch it off. Consulting: https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/automatic-indenting-vim/ I tried: :filetype indent off ...
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change behaviour of > / < and >> / << to insert / remove only leading tabs

i want > / < and >> / << to simply insert and remove tab characters at the beginning of the line. variant: i would even prefer to have> / < and >>/ << insert / ...
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Manually indenting lines with tabs

Lines can be indented with tab characters. And it is quite obvious the there are better ways to do that than manually adding a tab character to the beginning of each line. But how to discover these ...
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Expand all non-leading tabs but keep leading tabs [duplicate]

I want to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment in the following way: keep tab characters (like noexpandtab) for all leading tabs of a file, but expand tabs (like expandtab) that occur ...
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What's the Vim option to make indentation matches source file?

I just started at a new company where apparently there is no standardization on tab/space setting at all. Everything goes. That culture is not going to change. What I want to do is make Vim matches ...
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Indenting C with brace macros

I use a bunch of weird C macros which basically should behave like braces as far as formatting is concerned. My equalprg is empty, so I'm using vim's indenting function for = formatting. Is there any ...
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move (motion or visual selection) to own line and indent

Suppose I have the following text \[ X = (a, b) \] I want to easily convert it to the following, including indentation: \[ X = ( a, b ) \] Suppose my cursor is on a. How can I do ...
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How to stop Vim from indent template in C/C++?

I have piece of sample code (copied from stack overflow) //some lines of code template <typename ... Args> std::string string_format ( const std::string& format, Args ......
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Multiple "1 line >ed" messages

When I perform multiple shift :> operations, vim shows me a notification for each line that's shifted. Is there a way to avoid these multiple notifications? For example, I'm currently editing a ...
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block comments not automatically indented in Neovim

When inserting a block comment in a (TypeScript) buffer in Neovim, the line after the /**<Return> is not automatically indented. How can I achieve the expected behavior described below? Neovim ...
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Vim doesn't keep keep the same indentation as the line above it only in one situation

fn main { scores.entry(team_1_name) .and_modify(|&mut team| { team.goals_scored += team_1_score; team.goals_conceded += team_2_score; }) } When I press ...
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How to get the right indent size in python lists?

In my vimrc I have filetype indent plugin on When I write python code, the indentation mostly looks good, but in lists it is too big: def fun(): return 'indent looks good' my_list = [ '...
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Place cursor on opening brace, press "=%", why does the closing brace get indented (in addition to desired indentation of lines between the braces)?

I am following along in the book Vi IMproved by Steve Oualline. In Chapter 7, "Commands for Programmers", there is a discussion about indentation and the = command. Here is what I wrote in ...
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Neovim keep html tags indented in react/jsx files

When I edit a .html file I get this when pressing enter key: <div>|</div> <div> | </div> and while I edit a react file, the behavior is not what I was expecting: <div>...
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How do I override indent/html.vim's attribute indent behavior

Stated Purpose I'm trying to override Vim's HTML attribute indent behavior. This question is specific to ft=html. Vim has always inserted too many spaces when indenting HTML: <div> <div ...
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Is there a way to map remap 0<C-d> in insert mode

I'm doing a plugin which modify how shift works and remap <C-d> in insert mode. Every thing works well but I have a problem with 0<C-d>. It is a built-in mapping which reset the ...
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How do I determine the indentlevel to customize showbreak?

I want wrapped lines to look like this: some really long line that | ... reached the end of the | ... window. | const indented = () => { | // a really, really, | ... really ...
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How to set background color of lines in IndentLine?

I'm trying to configure Yggdroot/indentLine to use the same background color as used in whatever color scheme I'm using, that is I'd like the gray parts to have the same color as the background. From ...
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JavaScript HTML Template Literal Indenting

I have https://github.com/Quramy/vim-js-pretty-template installed to handle syntax highlighting for template strings marked with /*html*/ But indenting does not work correctly - I end up with ...
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Autoindent uses tabs after paste mode

My .vimrc: :set tabstop=2 :set shiftwidth=2 :set ai :set expandtab My workflow: vi filename type space spacetextenter, cursor is now under 't', indented with 2 spaces. As expected. :set paste paste ...
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Make Vim _really_ work with both spaces and tabs

Here is what I use for indentation: set autoindent set breakindent set expandtab set smarttab set shiftround set shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=-1 " or maybe shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=8 " https://...
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Indent changes when using CoC, how do I stop this?

I have set up my init.vim file to always use tabs as indentation by adding this to it: set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set noexpandtab Ever since I installed CoC to use Rust's language server, it ...
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How to indent C function parameters like curly braces and not with cino-(

From :h cino-(, I see that we can only indent the parameters for the function calls with respect to the opening bracket. This is problematic for functions with long names or within multiple namespaces....
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Indentation is messed up when pasting code

I find that the default indentation support for pasting is lacking. For example , If I use ]p for the following(copied using V) : try: l=None if 1: df = ...
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How can I make Tab insert tabs at the start of the line only, and spaces after text?

What I want to achieve I would like to setup vim such that tabs are inserted on lines until another character is inserted, after which, further tabulation results in spaces (similarly to expantab). ...
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Force convert spaces to tab in all file type [duplicate]

So today I'm having some problems with vim. I wanted to use tab when I press the tab key, and a tab is equal to 8 spaces. This is what I added to my /etc/vimrc file: :set noexpandtab :set tabstop=8 ...
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False indentation after line continuation in if-else clause for `sh` filetype

I have shell script file (filetype=sh) like if [ -f filename ]; then echo "file exit" | \ cat - else echo "file not exist" fi When I select the block and apply ...
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Java Code Conventions: How to set up autoindent

As recommended by Oracle's Java Code Conventions, I try to avoid lines longer than 80 characters. For this it's of course often necessary to break lines, and the document contains some general ...
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Empty line indentation for Python

Whenever I press o or O, VIM starts the line with the desired indentation. At work, people have decided that they want empty lines to be indented as if it contained code, such that code can be copied ...
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vimtex: configure to indent '[ ... ]' and '\[ ... \]' blocks

When setting indentation using vimtex, I meet some problem. I set the option g:vimtex_indent_delims to indent [...] blocks. let g:vimtex_indent_delims = { \ 'open' : ['{','(','['], \ '...
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vimtex: fully indent a '{ ... }' block

Concerning indent in vimtex, it has some settings controlling indenting of delimiters, the option seems to be g:vimtex_indent_delims. However, I would like to not only indent the text between opening ...
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How to move cursor up to nearest upward smaller level of indentation

Imagine my cursor is where the ^ is in this document: { "first": [ { "second": { "third": [ "fourth" ] } }, {...
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`:call append!` -- how vim insert line (append or setline) while respecting indentation

I want to put a string function output in my vim when press xx. My current working example is: nnoremap <silent> xx :call append('.', 'string_output')<CR> However, this put a line without ...
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Vim plugin where the first lines in the editor show the first line(s) with less indendation that are not visible

I would like to either find or write a plugin that does the following: Assume I have this python code: def foo(a,b,c): # comment [100 lines that do stuff] for i in range(N): [100 ...
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Vim treats paths with wildcards( /*) as C-style block comments and applies weird indentation

Vim 8.1 from Ubuntu 20.04 thinks /* in include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; is a start of a C-style block comment and gives wrong indentation in default nginx.conf file when using '=': http { ...
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vim doesnt recognize html in string in filetype php. same thing with php code in filetype html

Ive had no luck solving these issues for quite a while now. Problem1 When writing HTML inside a string in a file with filetype=php, the HTML is not recognized (i.e., it has no highlighting or indent). ...
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How to remove this weird default indentation?

If I do gg=G on a file with the following text - 2018-2019 ICPC Northwestern European Regional Programming Contest (NWERC 2018) - 2020 ICPC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Programming Contest - ...
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How can i get visualize line indent every time i use tab or go to new line

I set set listchars=tab:\│\ set list to my vimrc and it shows like below But when I go to another file it doesn't have a vertical line indent. It just affected 1 file, I have no idea about this. ...
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How does smarttab actually works?

Yes, I'm aware of what :h smarttab says, but I still cannot figure it out. " My vimrc set backspace=indent,eol,start set tabstop=8 " I always keep this 8 set shiftwidth=4 set softtabstop=-1 &...
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How to totally close all the auto indent

In my case, I was writing a tex file. After Closing some auto indent settings set noai noci nosi filetype indent off filetype plugin indent off But vim still gave me 2 tab indent when I type { or [ ...
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