Vim auto-indent (4 spaces)
I find this to be very convenient especially if you're doing a quick code editing or even on a long session of coding, using Vim. And you want to enforce a particular indentation style, in this case, a 4 space indentation.
In your ~/.vimrc file, add this options:
syntax enable
set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtabYour tabs will now be 4 spaces, new lines will be auto-indented and curly braces will be aligned automatically.
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Written by Ryan Yonzon
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I encourage anyone modifying their vimrc to understand why they are setting something. As for me I haven't yet determine what smartindent does and I've grabbed these settings from various other people's vimrcs.
set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
set copyindent " copy the previous indentation on autoindenting
set expandtab " expand tabs by default (overloadable per file type)
set shiftround " use multiple of shiftwidth when indenting with '<' and '>'
set shiftwidth=2 " number of spaces to use for autoindenting
set smartindent
set smarttab " insert tabs on the start of a line according to shiftwidth, not tabstop
set softtabstop=2 " when hitting <BS>, pretend like a tab is removed, even if spaces
set tabstop=2 " tabs are n spaces
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