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DeX3
DeX3

Reputation: 5569

My vim keeps correcting indents of previous lines?

When I edit HTML, I sometimes like to line-up attribute declarations like this:

<li class="dropdown"
    ui-route="..."
    ng-class="{active: $uiRoute}">
</li>

However, when I'm at the end of line 2 of my example and I enter a newline, vim seems to correct the indentation of line 2 to that of line 1. Here's a GIF of it happening:

GIF of the problem

I have autoindent on but disabling it doesn't seem to help.

Can I tell vim to stop doing that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 58

Answers (1)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195289

This is because you have set filetype indent on and the indent file: xml.vim was loaded.

If you rename the file to something like foo.vim.txt and vim foo.vim.txt, the indent would not be automatically adjusted when you pressed Enter.

More detailed info:

In you $VIMRUNTIME/indent/xml.vim, you can find:

setlocal indentkeys=o,O,*<Return>,<>>,<<>,/,{,}

that is, when you pressed <Return> in your xml file, the indent adjustment was triggered. read :h indentkeys for details.

If you don't want to let vim re-indent your line when you press <enter>, you can try setlocal indentkeys -=*<Return>. If you want it only to happen on certain filetype, i.e. xml, you can create autocommand.

Hope it helps.

P.S. I just found that your file might be html file, it is the same. You can check $VIMRUNTIME/indent/html.vim, you will see <Enter> is in the list too.

Upvotes: 2

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