vim help please

static_void · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 10:06 am Post subject: vim help please

Hey I have this problem with vim, it doesnt auto indent, in my .vimrc file there is the set ai made by the gentoo guys...didnt work...tried adding set autoindent myself...dint work....is this a know problem that I am unaware of, because in RH8 auto indenting works, or is there something I have misconfigured...btw I am in console mode.(ie not in X)...if that makes any difference.
Thank your for your help
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ptman · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Finland

Try also setting si (smartindent). And be sure to tell vim in what language it is written, so that you just don't start vim and start typing, but so that you start it with a file as parameter so that vim can figure out which language it should be indenting for.
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static_void · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:10 am Post subject: Thanks PTMAN

Problem solved I added si and it works beatifuly, btw with si it seems to work regardless wether or not i put a language extentsion like .c, I tried for example vi porn and vi porn.c and both have auto indenting, but only porn.c has syntax highlighting....anyway...thanks for your help
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