Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Re: cindent with a "semi-c-style" language

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Gustaf Johansson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to get cindent to successfully indent a "semi-c-style"
>> language.  It has all the standard constructions and the cindent feature
>> works quite well for most cases.  But the language uses := as assignment
>> operator, and this causes problems with cindent.  cindent always positions
>> these statements at column 0, i have tried to change cinoptions without
>> success.  I suppose cindent thinks that these lines are labels of some kind.
>>
>> So my question is: is it possible to disable cindent's recognition of
>> labels (the language does not have any anyway).
>
> I think:
>
> set cinoptions+=L0
>
> should do what you want.  (It appears to work in an actual C file.)
>
> Found in:
>
> :help C-indenting
>
> by searching for ':' (no quotes), and finding:
>
> LN    Controls placement of jump labels. [...]
>
> The default is equivalent to L-1, to place at column 1.  (Vim columns start
> at 1, not 0)
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben

Thanks Ben,

I was using vim 7.2 so i was missing this option (was added in 7.3).

BR Gustaf

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