Friday, November 5, 2010

Re: wm and tw cause formatting problem

On 04 Nov 2010, Ben Fritz wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 2, 11:03 am, Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> > In insert mode, if a line starts with "-" the next line is indented. This is
> > not what I want.
> >
> > After a lot of experimenting, I found that it was because either
> > textwidth or wrapmargin was set to a non-zero value. Is there any way to
> > get round this? I do need to set textwidth but I don't want to have to
> > keep correcting lines with initial "-".
> >
>
> After some experimenting on MY end, the problem is actually in two
> settings:
>
> 'comments' contains the string "fb:-"
> 'formatoptions' contains a 'c'
>
> Removing either of these should fix your problem.
>
> Note that this is actually a feature, it allows you to properly indent
> bulleted lists like this:
>
> - item
> one
> - item
> two
> - item
> three
>
> See :help format-comments and of course the :help entry for
> 'comments', 'formatoptions', and fo-table for details.
>

Thanks very much for this. Yes, it does fix things. I'd guessed it was a
feature rather than a bug.

Cheers,

Anthony

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