8/29/2016 Edit The original answer below is no longer functional in modern browsers. For those who still need to use a tag instead of doing magic with HTML lists, a better solution was found on this stackoverflow thread: Rendering a hierarchy of “OPTION”s in a “SELECT” tag I would recommend the solution suggested by igor-krupitsky … Read more
The problem is that your settings are being overridden by a filetype plugin that’s part of Vim. The issue is in ftplugin/python.vim: ” As suggested by PEP8. setlocal expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=8 The python plugin attempts to setup your source code to be PEP8 compliant by default, so it’s adjusting the tabstop. You’ll want some … Read more
Notepad++ will only auto-insert subsequent indents if you manually indent the first line in a block; otherwise you can re-indent your code after the fact using TextFX > TextFX Edit > Reindent C++ code.
Spaces are not treated as equivalent to tab. A line indented with a tab is at a different indentation from a line indented with 1, 2, 4 or 8 spaces. Proof by counter-example (erroneous, or, at best, limited – tab != 4 spaces): x = 1 if x == 1: ^Iprint “fff\n” print “yyy\n” The … Read more
Pre-ANSI C preprocessor did not allow for space between the start of a line and the “#” character; the leading “#” had to always be placed in the first column. Pre-ANSI C compilers are non-existent these days. Use which ever style (space before “#” or space between “#” and the identifier) you prefer. http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gcc/cpp_48.html
This is what you may want $ echo “continuation”\ > “lines” continuation lines If this creates two arguments to echo and you only want one, then let’s look at string concatenation. In bash, placing two strings next to each other concatenate: $ echo “continuation””lines” continuationlines So a continuation line without an indent is one way … Read more
To format a selection: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F To format a document: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D See the pre-defined keyboard shortcuts. (These two are Edit.FormatSelection and Edit.FormatDocument.) Note for macOS On macOS, use the CMD ⌘ key instead of Ctrl: To format a selection: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+F To format a document: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+D
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): filetype plugin indent on ” show existing tab with 4 spaces width set tabstop=4 ” when indenting with ‘>’, use 4 spaces width set shiftwidth=4 ” On … Read more
The basic indentation rules are actually quite simple: after the keywords which start a block (where,let,do,case .. of) note down the column where the next word starts (which might be in the next line) lines indented exactly as that are new entries in the block lines indented more than that continue the previous entry a … Read more
It means you have mixed up spaces and tabs in the indentation. You have to fix that to be consistent with either tabs or spaces.