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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 1211

vim indention not preserving spacing

Below is example text I put in vim, only spaces used no tabs.

dog;
dogcat
  dogcatmoose
box
  box car
woop
  woopadoop

Lets say I highlight all code, and use indention > what happens is the following:

    dog;
    dogcat
    dogcatmoose
    box
    box car
    woop
    woopadoop

Original spacing is not preserved. I dont want that, I want spacing to be preserved so it looks like this:

  dog;
  dogcat
    dogcatmoose
  box
    box car
  woop
    woopadoop

I tested with tabs instead of spaces. When using tabs, indention preserves the tabs. Here is my vimrc. IS there some value in here causing this problem? Is there a value I can add to fix the problem?

set number
set nowrap
set linebreak
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set shiftround
set expandtab
set title
set mouse=a
set hlsearch
set smarttab
set autoindent
set smartindent
set background=dark
filetype indent on
set filetype=html
set smartindent
set nocompatible
filetype off
set nobackup noswapfile
set clipboard=unnamed
let &colorcolumn=join(range(81,999),",")
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=235 guibg=#2c2d27
"Stop vm from indenting on comment out sections starting with "#"
set indentkeys-=0#

Upvotes: 0

Views: 84

Answers (1)

j1-lee
j1-lee

Reputation: 13929

My suggestion is to get rid of set shiftround.

It seems like set shiftround coupled with set shiftwidth=4 is causing the behaviour. shiftround tries to indent the text to multiples of 4 (which is set by shiftwidth), while your text is indented with 2 spaces. So when you do >, shiftround makes all the lines have the same 4-space indent. You can experiment this with the same text but with 4-space indentation; your setting will preserve the indentation.

Upvotes: 1

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