On 15-Mar-2014 Andre Sihera <andre.sih...@hotmail.co.jp> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have found an annoyance with the tab indenting (SHIFT + '>', SHIFT > + '<') and > was wondering if this was by design or should be fixed. > > My .vimrc contains the following: > > set ts=4 > set shiftwidth=4 > > So, when I visually select a block of text and press SHIFT + '>' it > will insert > a tab on the left on each line and the block moves four characters > to the right. > > However, this feature does not honour leading whitespace within each > line. I use a > mixture of tabs and whitespace to ensure that my code looks uniform > on all platforms > no matter what the tab size. However, the tab indent breaks this. > For example, > if I have the following text at ts=4 (a full stop "." character > indicates a space): > > TAB>sprintf(szSomeVariable, > TAB>........"Some text %i, %i, %i, %i\n", > TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#1, > TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#2, > TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#3, > TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#4); > > and I visually highlight the above block and press SHIFT + '>', I > would expect > it to look as follows: > > TAB>TAB>sprintf(szSomeVariable, > TAB>TAB>........"Some text %i, %i, %i, %i\n", > TAB>TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#1, > TAB>TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#2, > TAB>TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#3, > TAB>TAB>........some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#4); > > However, it actually looks like this: > > TAB>TAB>sprintf(szSomeVariable, > TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>"Some text %i, %i, %i, %i\n", > TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#1, > TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#2, > TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#3, > TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>some_very_long_expression_that_takes_up_most_of_the_line_#4); > > i.e., ViM is being too clever and compressing all my whitespace into > tabs when I > didn't ask it to. > > Is this by design? Has it been fixed since my ancient version of ViM > (7.3.475)? > Did I miss something in the docs? Or is this just a "feature"? > > Regards, > > Andre Sihera. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
I believe what you are trying to achieve is what I did in the patch I posted 4 years ago here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_dev/JDLJgDk-ZrQ/nROMNPdwfhwJ I added an option called 'tabindent'. The patch was ignored but I've been using it happily ever since. This: #v+ void func() { TAB>if (opta) TAB>TAB>while (optb) TAB>TAB>TAB>if (optc) TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>printf("opta == %d, optb == %d, optc == %d\n", TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>...opta, TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>...optb, TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>...optc); } // vim: ft=c ts=4 sw=4 cino=(0,l1 #v- will be indented as follows: #v+ void func2() { TAB>if (opta) TAB>TAB>while (optb) TAB>TAB>TAB>if (optc) TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>printf("opta == %d, optb == %d, optc == %d\n", TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>.......opta, TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>.......optb, TAB>TAB>TAB>TAB>.......optc); } // vim: ft=c ts=4 sw=4 cino=(0,l1 tabindent #v- It works with indenting C/C++. It allows indent scripts to be adjusted with a trivial modification. You might try applying the patches attached to the message I posted a link to. If the patch doesn't apply cleanly (well, I know it doesn't) and fixing it is difficult, I can send you a version that applies to current Vim. Unfortunately, I'm quite busy for the next 2 weeks so it will take a bit of time. HTH, Lech -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
