Re: default indentation of perl code

On Sat, Jan 03, 2015, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> 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

Oh, that makes sense. I was confused because your message gave an extra
space after the X.

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