Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic vi that would handle multiple buffers and color indent his programs Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an oxymoron. :) I don't use vim (obviously) but using one of the vi-modes in Emacs may be a good choice for you. Type `M-x viper-mode' and it is rather self explanatory. HTH, ksb
auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?
As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. Is there a variant of vi that can do this? vim claims to hilite syntax, and i think elvis claims that too, but can either be made to handle indent/exdent automaticalyy? And to complicate things, thoguh i need c++ at times, it's Fortran 90 that's most important. rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic vi that would handle multiple buffers and color indent his programs
RE: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?
vim does syntax hi lighting quite well. Having never used emacs, I have no idea what you mean by auto indenting. On 31-Oct-98 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. Is there a variant of vi that can do this? vim claims to hilite syntax, and i think elvis claims that too, but can either be made to handle indent/exdent automaticalyy? And to complicate things, thoguh i need c++ at times, it's Fortran 90 that's most important. rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic vi that would handle multiple buffers and color indent his programs -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. Try the following command... :set autoindent this works for me for general programming. But if you're editing text files and desire to cut and paste from different terms then it will reek havoc. If you want to turn it off then... :set noautoindent I can't help you with color coding. Jon
Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote As I get more and more frustrated with emacs, it keeps occurring to me that the *only* reason I'm using emacs instead of vi is that it indents and color-codes my program code. I feel your pain. There is a solution. rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic vi that would handle multiple buffers and color indent his programs Well, ''classic`` vi? It's vim that has color syntax highlighting. Install the vim and vim-rt package, then try vi -V something.c You will see all the syntax files be sourced for color, and then do a :set or :set all, and see what types of indent options and format options are set automatically.
