[kwlug-disc] Syntax and indenting in vim 8.0 driving me crazy ...

[doug moen]

Here are my settings for autoindentation, taken from my .vimrc file.

" turn on autoindent
set ai

" convert tabs into spaces during text entry (but not when reading a file)
set expandtab

" If I edit a file containing tabs, this controls the tab indentation when
the text is displayed.
" If I type Tab, it indents to the next multiple of 4 (converting the tab
to spaces)
set tabstop=4

" This is the 'shift width'.
" During text entry, ^T indents to the next shift-width column,
" and ^D undents to the previous shift-width column.
" The >> operator indents the selected lines by shift-width spaces,
" and << undents by the same amount.
set sw=4


On 20 February 2018 at 11:09, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> An update ...
>
> Thanks to Paul Nijjar, I now have a solution (of sorts).
>
> By having this line in my .vimrc, the syntax highlighting is restored.
>
> :syntax on
>
> Autoindents are disabled, but that is better than frustratingly wrong
> autointendation.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> For an editor, I have been using vi (then vim) for 31 years.
>>
>> For a long time I had my own customizations in .vimrc, or under .vim
>> directory.
>> But some time ago I discovered that I don't need these customization,
>> since the default syntax, tab width, ..etc. all worked well.
>>
>> On my Ubuntu 16.04 boxes (this laptop, servers, ...etc.), I have vim 7.4,
>> and all is good.
>>
>> When I got the new Raspberry Pi 3, I installed the latest Raspian on it,
>> and that happened to be version 9. It came with vim 8.0.
>>
>> The packages I have installed are: vim, vim-common, vim-runtime and
>> vim-tiny. /usr/bin/vi symlinks to /usr/bin/vim.basic.
>>
>> On the Ubuntu machines, with vim 7.4, it all works well. Syntax and
>> indenting work correctly for the files I used on a daily basis, such as
>> config files, .yaml, python, c, and php. I don't have a .vimrc file anymore.
>>
>> However, on Raspian 9's vim 8.0, syntax highlighting is correct, but
>> indentation is wrong and it forces wrong indents when I add lines, ...etc.
>>
>> So, I thought that I would override indentation on the RPi using a .vimrc
>> file. The problem is: once I have a .vimrc or .vim directory, all syntax
>> highlighting goes away completely, even if the .vimrc file is empty! That
>> is not the behaviour on Ubuntu: a .vimrc does not cause syntax highlighting
>> to be disabled.
>>
>> One way to solve this is to copy all the syntax stuff from
>> /usr/share/vim80/* into my .vimrc directory, and edit it to remove the
>> offending indentation. But that would be duplication, and not the proper
>> way of doing this.
>>
>> So:
>>
>> Anyone encounter this issue?
>>
>> What are good ways to solve it, other than the duplicating above?
>>
>> --
>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>> 2bits.com, Inc.
>> Fast Reliable Drupal
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>> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
>> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
>> For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
>> wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com, Inc.
> Fast Reliable Drupal
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> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
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> wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
>
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