Tip #330: how to stop auto indenting

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created:		September 20, 2002 13:01		complexity:		intermediate
author:		Francis		as of Vim:		6.0

Since VIM 6.0 the indent has been improved so much. But sometimes when we are pasting formated text (source code or HTML etc) into a buffer, VIM indents again so that lines will be padded with too much spaces. Setting nocindent, noautoindent, nosmartindent still cannot stop this. All you need to do is "set paste", then paste your stuff, and then "set nopaste" again. Ref: indentexpr

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[email protected], September 20, 2002 22:50

:h pt even better

[email protected], September 22, 2002 11:21

I find that I'm annoyed by the indent policy accompanying some file types (HTML and XML in particular). Adding the following lines to your .vimrc will turn off ALL indenting for the given file types: autocmd BufEnter *.html setlocal indentexpr= autocmd BufEnter *.htm setlocal indentexpr= autocmd BufEnter *.xml setlocal indentexpr= autocmd BufEnter *.xsd setlocal indentexpr= Just change the above to whatever file type (extension) you want to disable indenting for.

[email protected], October 2, 2002 5:51

As a 15 year + vi user I find the latest version of vim intensely irritating. I would like a quick way of disabling the irritatingly stupid indentation and I am not keen on wasting any time learning how to configure vim. To my mind vim -C should disable indentation and highlighting (which is none to clever either) but it doesn't- any hints?

[email protected], October 2, 2002 18:38

AMEN to the person who finds the indenting exceedingly annoying. Does anyone know how to disable this so-called feature completely so that I can type things the way I want rather than the way someone else decided I should want? This sort of thing is very un-Unix-like.

[email protected], October 3, 2002 7:52

I finally found out how to disable the autoindent annoyance. Put the following line in the file .vimrc in your home directory: filetype off Amazingly easy to do. Why was it so hard to find out how to do it?

[email protected], October 9, 2002 18:34

Another alternative is to modify $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim, which is a fairly straight forward process. Just find the section for the file type in question and start commenting or deleting sections that offend you. -- Michael And now, my Two Cents: >>Amazingly easy to do. Why was it so hard to find out how to do it? Because most people are not so put off by it. >>I [want to] type things the way I want rather than the way someone >>decided I should want? This sort of thing is very un-Unix-like. Most of the indenting schemes are fairly configurable on an individual basis, and almost all conform to de-facto and/or official code standards. That's not so un-unix like, is it? >>I'm a 15 year + vi user I find the latest version of vim intensely irritating. >>I am not keen on wasting any time learning how to configure vim. Why are you using VIM then? Use a VI clone if you are not willing to configure VIM. Why are you unwilling to configure your editor? >>To my mind vim -C should disable indentation and highlighting I agree. Intuitively I would expect that to disable those features.

Anonymous, October 22, 2002 11:55

:set pastetoggle=<F11>

[email protected], November 6, 2002 5:39

To turn off indenting, you can use: :set noai :set noautoindent

Anonymous, November 14, 2002 19:42

To rando: ':set no ai' will not work when filetype (or the new indent feature) exists. that's all this tip about.




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