Re: default indentation of perl code

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>> I am finding that the default indentation settings used for perl code
>> are not very intuitive.
>>
>> After spending some time scourging through help files, google etc., I
>> arrived at these
>>
>> autocmd FileType perl set autoindent | set smartindent
>> autocmd FileType perl inoremap # X ^H#
>
> What is the purpose of the second autocmd?
>

I used it to get the comment(s) indentation right. With out that if I
write a comment after a subroutine definition, the comment would be
moved to the first column.

For example, say I have

sub read_file()
{
# some comment here

this would be changed as

sub read_file()
{
# some comment here

This is explained in ":help smartindent" as follows

When typing '#' as the first character in a new line, the indent for
that line is removed, the '#' is put in the first column. The indent
is restored for the next line. If you don't want this, use this
mapping: ":inoremap # X^H#", where ^H is entered with CTRL-V CTRL-H.

hope that helps
raju

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