[kwlug-disc] Syntax and indenting in vim 8.0 driving me crazy ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

That helps a lot Doug!

Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:51 AM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> Here are my settings for autoindentation, taken from my .vimrc file.
>
> " turn on autoindent
> set ai
>
> " convert tabs into spaces during text entry (but not when reading a file)
> set expandtab
>
> " If I edit a file containing tabs, this controls the tab indentation when
> the text is displayed.
> " If I type Tab, it indents to the next multiple of 4 (converting the tab
> to spaces)
> set tabstop=4
>
> " This is the 'shift width'.
> " During text entry, ^T indents to the next shift-width column,
> " and ^D undents to the previous shift-width column.
> " The >> operator indents the selected lines by shift-width spaces,
> " and << undents by the same amount.
> set sw=4
>
>
> On 20 February 2018 at 11:09, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> An update ...
>>
>> Thanks to Paul Nijjar, I now have a solution (of sorts).
>>
>> By having this line in my .vimrc, the syntax highlighting is restored.
>>
>> :syntax on
>>
>> Autoindents are disabled, but that is better than frustratingly wrong
>> autointendation.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For an editor, I have been using vi (then vim) for 31 years.
>>>
>>> For a long time I had my own customizations in .vimrc, or under .vim
>>> directory.
>>> But some time ago I discovered that I don't need these customization,
>>> since the default syntax, tab width, ..etc. all worked well.
>>>
>>> On my Ubuntu 16.04 boxes (this laptop, servers, ...etc.), I have vim
>>> 7.4, and all is good.
>>>
>>> When I got the new Raspberry Pi 3, I installed the latest Raspian on it,
>>> and that happened to be version 9. It came with vim 8.0.
>>>
>>> The packages I have installed are: vim, vim-common, vim-runtime and
>>> vim-tiny. /usr/bin/vi symlinks to /usr/bin/vim.basic.
>>>
>>> On the Ubuntu machines, with vim 7.4, it all works well. Syntax and
>>> indenting work correctly for the files I used on a daily basis, such as
>>> config files, .yaml, python, c, and php. I don't have a .vimrc file anymore.
>>>
>>> However, on Raspian 9's vim 8.0, syntax highlighting is correct, but
>>> indentation is wrong and it forces wrong indents when I add lines, ...etc.
>>>
>>> So, I thought that I would override indentation on the RPi using a
>>> .vimrc file. The problem is: once I have a .vimrc or .vim directory, all
>>> syntax highlighting goes away completely, even if the .vimrc file is empty!
>>> That is not the behaviour on Ubuntu: a .vimrc does not cause syntax
>>> highlighting to be disabled.
>>>
>>> One way to solve this is to copy all the syntax stuff from
>>> /usr/share/vim80/* into my .vimrc directory, and edit it to remove the
>>> offending indentation. But that would be duplication, and not the proper
>>> way of doing this.
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>> Anyone encounter this issue?
>>>
>>> What are good ways to solve it, other than the duplicating above?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>>> 2bits.com, Inc.
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>> 2bits.com, Inc.
>> Fast Reliable Drupal
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>> wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
Fast Reliable Drupal
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
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