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Old 12-19-2008
Setting vi indentation to k&r style?
A bit of searching on Google did not seem to yield any really helpful results on how to set vim to use k&r indentation style. I know Emacs has such a feature, but does vim? If so, how do I turn it on? I am just starting to learn vi, and when I am coding in C it looks really ugly without some sort of indent style going on....
# 2  
Old 12-23-2008
You can make a start with
Code:
:set autoindent

or
Code:
:set cindent

and
Code:
:set shiftwidth=4

which sets the number of spaces to indent by.
You can then do all manner of C-specific fine-tuning by setting cinoptions, described in detail in the vim documentation, or you could search for some ready-made cinoptions that give a K&R style.
# 3  
Old 12-26-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by spirtle
You can make a start with
Code:
:set autoindent

or
Code:
:set cindent

and
Code:
:set shiftwidth=4

which sets the number of spaces to indent by.
You can then do all manner of C-specific fine-tuning by setting cinoptions, described in detail in the vim documentation, or you could search for some ready-made cinoptions that give a K&R style.
Thanks - the search term 'cinoptions' worked well.
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