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my autoindent is not working, any diagnostic tests to figure it out?
my ":set" is:
:set --- Options --- cindent laststatus=2 scroll=17
tabstop=4 window=36
filetype=cpp number
smartindent ttyfast
helplang=en paste
syntax=cpp ttymouse=xterm2
backspace=indent,eol,start
fileencoding=utf-8
fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1 printoptions=paper:letter
runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/af ter,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc
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How to Turn On Auto Indent in Vim. To automatically indent when editing a file in Vim, enable the auto indenting feature using the :set autoindent flag in command mode: Press Enter, and this will auto-indent the file you are currently editing.
To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there's a special "paste" mode. Then paste your code. Note that the text in the tooltip now says -- INSERT (paste) -- . After you pasted your code, turn off the paste-mode, so that auto-indenting when you type works correctly again.
Start in the top of a file (to get there, press gg anywhere in the file.). Then press =G , and Vim will fix the indentation in the whole file. If you don't start in the beginning of the file, it will fix indentation from current line to the bottom of file.
Tab key == 4 spaces and auto-indent after curly braces in Vim.
try:
:set ai
or:
:set autoindent
find more about auto-indent:
:h ai
Otherwise, it's might be something with file type detection.
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I had a stale function in indentexpr which persisted after changing the filetype. This eventually fixed it for me:
:set indentexpr=
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