[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I'm one of those people who don't like editors doing things automatically because I find the automatic feature often does something other than what I intended. I've noticed recently that when I edit configuration files in /etc, vim likes to insert a leading "# " in new lines following

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
070223 John Blinka wrote: > when I edit configuration files in /etc, > vim likes to insert a leading "# " in new lines > following existing comment lines. > That's almost never what I want to do > and I have to delete the # and space before doing what I intended. > I've got the latest stable vers

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? - SOLVED

2007-02-24 Thread John Blinka
Philip Webb wrote: Google 'vim automatic comment' finds sect 30.6 of the Vim User Manual, which covers something similar; also http://ianua.initd.org/vimit/vim63/html/change.html#fo-table which seems to cover what you describe under options 'r' & 'o'. Perhaps this will get you started, if n