Bug 161177 - Automatic indentation doesn't work at all in vim
Summary: Automatic indentation doesn't work at all in vim
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-21 04:15 UTC by Chris Gonnerman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-21 09:40:10 UTC
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Description Chris Gonnerman 2005-06-21 04:15:47 UTC
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Description of problem:
No matter what I do, I can't get the automatic indentation to work in VIM.  I've tried with both Python and C source files, and when I start a new block it does not indent, nor does it "dedent" when I close a block in C.  Whatever indentation level it is at, it stays there for each new line until I change it.

I tried first with a stock install, then created a .vimrc containing the following:

set autoindent
set expandtab
set smarttab
set sw=4
set ts=4
set showmatch

Neither way works at all.  This works fine on my SuSE 6.3 system.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

vim-enhanced-6.3.071-3


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start VIM with a source file that should be indented, like test.c.  Type in a properly-formatted function definition (for example) and note that the automatic indent doesn't happen when you start the block (with the open-curly).


Actual Results:  It didn't indent.


Expected Results:  It should have indented one tab-stop (four spaces with the vimrc described above).


Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Gonnerman 2005-06-21 04:25:48 UTC
Never mind.  I just discovered the difference between vim-enhanced and
vim-minimal, namely that typing "vi" isn't the same as typing "vim" at the prompt.

This REALLY ought to be in the FAQ, as I looked there first.


Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2005-06-21 09:40:10 UTC
Closing as NOTABUG based on last comment.

BTW: You might want to use smartindent or cindent, whichever better matches
your programming style. From the vim manual:

There are in fact four methods available for indentation:
'autoindent'	uses the indent from the previous line.
'smartindent'	is like 'autoindent' but also recognizes some C syntax to
		increase/reduce the indent where appropriate.
'cindent'	Works more cleverly than the other two and is configurable to
		different indenting styles.
'indentexpr'	The most flexible of all: Evaluates an expression to compute
		the indent of a line.  When non-empty this method overrides
		the other ones.  See |indent-expression|.



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