Tim Chase said on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:37:10 -0500 >On 2023-06-13 21:18, Steve Litt wrote: >> Using grep, I found there are no files whose names contain the string >> "pascal" in any case in the ~/.vim directory (I'm using Void Linux). >> > >I suspect your frustration is being caused by something in >$VIMRUNTIME/indent/pascal.vim
Correct: ~/.vim/indent didn't exist, so I followed your instructions... > >As such, you should be able to do something like (optionally putting >your settings in there, too) > > $ mkdir -p ~/.vim/indent > $ cat >> ~/.vim/indent/pascal.vim <EOF > let b:did_indent = 1 > set ai > set expandtab > set tabstop 3 > set shiftwidth 3 > EOF The preceding worked. Now I can tab and Ctrl+d or Ctrl+t for *space-only* indentation of three spaces in insert mode. Naturally, I can use << and >> in command mode. It's beautiful. Vim doesn't try to guess what I want in indentation: It lets me do it manually, which is just what I want. > >or possibly adding something like > > autocmd FileType pascal let b:did_indent=1 > >to your ~/.vimrc might at least prevent the stock indentation >settings. The preceding didn't work, but that's OK, your main solution worked, so thank you! SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20230614030930.65220801%40mydesk.domain.cxm.