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Tagged with vim indentation
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Indent multiple lines quickly in vi
It should be trivial, and it might even be in the help, but I can't figure out how to navigate it. How do I indent multiple lines quickly in vi?
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Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
I am making the effort to learn Vim.
When I paste code into my document from the clipboard, I get extra spaces at the start of each new line:
line
line
line
I know you can turn off auto ...
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Tab key == 4 spaces and auto-indent after curly braces in Vim
How do I make vi-Vim never use tabs (converting spaces to tabs, bad!), makes the tab key == 4 spaces, and automatically indent code after curly brace blocks like Emacs does?
Also, how do I save these ...
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How do I fix the indentation of an entire file in Vi?
In Vim, what is the command to correct the indentation of all the lines?
Often times I'll copy and paste code into a remote terminal and have the whole thing messed up. I want to fix this in one ...
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Changing Vim indentation behavior by file type
Could someone explain to me in simple terms the easiest way to change the indentation behavior of Vim based on the file type? For instance, if I open a Python file it should indent with 2 spaces, but ...
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How do I tidy up an HTML file's indentation in VI?
How do I fix the indentation of his huge html files which was all messed up?
I tried the usual "gg=G command, which is what I use to fix the indentation of code files. However, it didn't seem to ...
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How can I wrap text to some length in Vim?
Let's speak of relative measures. My Vim looks like:
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbb
ccccccccccccc
etc
I would like it to be smaller:
aaaaa
aaaaa
bbbbb
bbbbb
ccccc
ccccc
etc
How can I get it? And ...
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How to use only tab (not space) in vim
I prefer to use tab than white space(may be a little different from most of others)
But I found, when I hit Enter at the end of line, it will add some white spaces, but not tab. So, I have to delete ...
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Vim automatically removes indentation on Python comments [duplicate]
I'm using Vim and editing Python scripts.
Autoindent works pretty well in general, but when I start a new line and type '#' to type a comment, Vim unindents that line for me.
For example, if have
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How do I indent a single line multiple times in vi or vim?
I've found several answers on how to indent multiple lines in vim, I want to know how to take a single line and indent it more than once. In effect, I want a shorter version of the following command:
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Comments (#) go to start of line in the insert mode in Vim
Whenever I want to add a comment to an indented line in vim, I hit Shift-o (open a new row above the current, switch to insert mode) and start typing a Python comment (using #). That hash is then ...
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Showing trailing spaces in vim
I've set the following options in .vimrc
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,trail:·
set list
And expected to see dots in those places where spaces are used for tabulation in the code (I use spaces, not tabs).
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Setting up Vim for Python
I really like the Emacs editor for Python because of its smart tabbing for instance if I have something like this
def foo():
if bar:
blah
[b]eep
and I press tab on the cursor (...
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Remove all arbitary spaces before a line in Vim
I'v written a plugin where it comes to parsing a XML tag. The content inside the tag is indented and when i copy the parsed string into the file it's gettting like:
Example line
This is ...
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Is it possible to display indentation guides in Vim?
I'm a longtime Vim user (3 or 4 years) who has recently started dealing with some deeply nested code. This code is indented with spaces, not tabs. I would like some clean and non-distracting ...
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Correct indentation of HTML and PHP using Vim
I've been using Vim for a while, and I can't get proper HTML indentation working in PHP files.
For example, what I want is for each child to be indented one tab more than it's parent, as shown below.
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Vim: Smart indent when entering insert mode on blank line?
When I open a new line (via 'o') my cursor jumps to a correctly indented position on the next line. On the other hand, entering insert mode while my cursor is on a blank line doesn't move my cursor to ...
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Vim Auto Indent with newline
How do I get vim to place the cursor within the braces starting on a new line, ie with | denoting the cursor position :
class {
|
}
right now with my settings it only does this
class {
|}
I got ...
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Indenting in VIM with all the files in Folder
I have a folder containing hundreds of TTL (TeraTermLanguage) files.
Now I wanted indent all these files.
I have created teraterm.vim for indentation and I open a file using VIM and do "gg=G" and ...
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How to avoid namespace content indentation in vim?
How to set vim to not indent namespace content in C++?
namespace < identifier >
{
< statement_list > // Unwanted indentation
}
Surprisingly, 'cinoptions' doesn't provide a way to ...
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How to paste source code to vim without error format?
When I copy a python code, and paste to vim. the indents are all error.
but I paste into emacs or gedit, it is right.
that is difficult to describle, let's see the screenshot.
Notice:the blue and ...
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Disable all auto indentation in vim
In TeX vim usually screws up my indentation. Mainly when I'm in a displayed equation which I think should look like this:
\[
x=\frac{y}{z}
\]
where the whitespace infront of the x is one tab.
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Indenting a bunch of lines in Vim
Is there a way to indent a selection of lines in Vim, like we have in text editors where we select a bunch of lines and press tab (or shift tab) to indent/unindent the selected lines?
I am talking ...
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Why does vim not obey my expandtab in python files?
After I installed Vundle, my vim no longer obeys the expandtab settings I had. My tabs were set to 2 spaces, but now in python files it no longer does that. The problem is being called by this line:
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How can I achieve project specific indentation in vim?
I'm working on several projects, each of which uses different indentation style (for various filetypes). For example 1 tab per indentation level, 2 or 4 spaces etc. How can I automate switching ...
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Getting Vim to recognize XML
I would like Vim to help me indent my XML files like my C code. However, when I use
gg=G
It just sets everything to the left. Do I need to designate a syntax? Is XML recognized as a language?
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How to disable vim's indentation of switch case?
I'm currently fighting with Vim, I can't seem to make the indentation options do what I want.
Here are my settings, I put them at the bottom of .vimrc to make sure they take precedence. As you can ...
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Can VIM autoindent SQL?
"SQL Statement indentation good practice" appears to be the accepted format for writing SQL blocks.
Is there a Vim indent/syntax file that would adhere to this standard, or at least be close?
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Make vim indent C preprocessor directives the same as other statements
General info
(Note: Please read this all the way through, because I spent a bit of time organizing it, making sure I addressed each individual problem I'm having and why one proposed solution doesn't ...
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stopping vim from removing indentation on empty lines
When the cursor is placed at the end of a line containing nothing but withspace characters, vim will, when i press enter, remove that whitespace. I find this irritating, as it breaks my script for ...
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How to indent multiple lines on Vim?
I want to be able to highlight lines I want to indent/reverse-indent and indent with tab and shift-tab respectively.
" for command mode reverse tab
nmap <S-Tab> <<
" for insert mode ...
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Avoiding label indenting in C++
I guess this was asked before, but I could not find any similar question.
When writing part of the scope operator in C++, Vim guesses that it's going to be a label (on the first :) and then indents ...
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How to indent a selection in gVim (Win32)
I'd like to indent a block of text.
I am able to do this in the Linux build of gVim.
I do this in the state of gVim where I'm not in the insert or visual mode. The bar at the bottom is blank on the ...
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How do you enable file specific tab indent settings in VIM?
I believe there is a method to write a comment in a file that vim will use to override default tabbing and indent values.
Can someone point me to information about this feature and how to use it?
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Indenting two spaces a selection (visual mode) in vim?
Say I have this code:
var users = [
{ name: 'TJ', email: '[email protected]' },
{ name: 'Loki', email: '[email protected]' },
{ name: 'Jane', email: '[email protected]' }
];
I want to ...
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Javascript indentation in VIM
I'm trying to get VIM to indent Javascript with the '=' and related commands. When I try to auto indent the following, for example:
new function($) {
$.fn.setCursorPosition = function(pos) {
...
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Can Vim display two spaces for indentation, while keeping four spaces in the file?
I want to work on someone else's project, and he uses 4 spaces for indentation. I use 2, and my screen is not big enough to edit using 4 spaces comfortably.
Can I configure Vim to display 2 spaces ...
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Is there any good Haskell indentation script for Vim?
Unfortunately, the one Haskell indent script I found (by motemen) breaks when it comes to Haddock comments:
-- |Docline 1, lorem ipsum<CR>
-- Docline 2
^^^^ - an autoindent here, wtf
Would ...
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Automatic new line and indentation in vim when inside braces?
For example, if I'm coding jQuery in vim, and I have this in insert mode ("|" is the current cursor position):
$('#something').click(function(){|})
...and I hit enter, I would like to get this:
$('#...
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How can I make vim indent dplyr code with the pipe (%>%) operator correctly?
For example, vim will not indent correctly the following code:
flights <- flights %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
select(arr_delay, dep_delay) %>%
summarise(
arr = ...
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Vim: Indent current (blank) line and insert
Say I have the current text in the buffer, where _ marks the cursor
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("Hello, world!\n");
_
}
I have indentexpr on (though a solution with cindent or ...
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What is the "un-tab" sequence in (g)Vim?
This is an annoyance I've had for a long time.
(Nitpicky section: I prefer 4 space characters to tab characters. It's a lot easier to type "tab" instead of explaining that. When I say "tab", I mean ...
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How to prevent Vim indenting wrapped text in parentheses
This has bugged me for a long time, and try as I might I can't find a way round it.
When I'm editing text (specifically latex, but that doesn't matter) files, I want it to auto-wrap at 80 columns. It ...
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Does Vim have indentation guides, Notepad++-style?
In Notepad++, there is a dotted line that runs down from the function keyword through the end of the method. It looks like this:
Does Vim support something similar?
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Can I fix Groovy indenting in Vim?
I am trying to use Vim for some Groovy code at work. It doesn't seem to handle autoindents well when semicolons are not used. I've found a few questions related to Ruby and JavaScript with the same ...
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Set tab as 2 spaces in vimrc, but still set to 4 spaces when editing python files
I've set tab to equal 2 spaces in my vimrc. This works when I edit java files, but for some reason when I edit python files, tab is set to 4 spaces instead.
My vimrc:
filetype plugin indent on
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Vim cursor position after expanding html tag
I most IDEs and modern text editors (Sublime Text 3) the cursor is correctly indented after inserting a newline in between an html tag (aka 'expanding" the tag):
Before:
<div>|</div>
...
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How to edit HTML in Vim?
I'm new to Vim and I'm trying to get used to it. I just created a .vimrc file and got Vim to display line numbers and do incremental searching. I also enabled syntax highlighting. Now I want to enable ...
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Setting specific column tab stops in Vim
I am reasonably familiar with Vim's option for tabstop, softtabstop, shiftwidth, expandtabs, etc.
However, I'm wondering if there is a way in Vim to set specific column tab stops.
I need tab stops ...
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Vim editor indent problem when the first character of the line is a sharp # character
This haven been bugging me since the first day using Vim for 3 years. Whenever I try to indent a line via Shift + > when the FIRST CHARACTER of the line starts with a "#", it doesn't work ...
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