 Tip #129: Removing automatic comment leaders
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October 7, 2001 19:16 |
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Benji Fisher |
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5.7 |
If you include the "r" flag in the 'formatoptions' option (:help 'fo' , :help fo-table ) then the comment leader is inserted
automatically when you start a new line in a comment. For example, in TeX the "%" character is the comment leader,
and you might type
% This is a tex file.
% The comment leaders on all lines but the first were generated automatically.
% This is the last line of the comment, but Vim will insert the comment leader on the next line.
%
You can get rid of the comment leader (along with anything you may already have typed on the line) without affecting
the indent, if any, by typing "<C-U>" while in Insert mode.
Related point: if you want to adjust the indent while in Insert mode, you can use "<C-D>" (to Decrease the indent)
or "<C-T>" (to increase it). In the docs for Vim 6.0, this is described in the users' manual, :help 30.4 .
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