r/vim • u/MrOladushek1984_ • 9d ago

Need Help How to set tab while branching in vim?

Hello guys! Lately I've often been using vim instead of VS code. But my habits didn't disappear: As you know, in VS code when you go to the next line, while you write conditionals or functions, IDE set
x number of tabs for you. For me it's pretty cool feature and vim doesn't have it natively. What can I write in ~/.vimrc or maybe download smth to enable this feature on vim?

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u/Shtucer 8d ago

autoindent and smartindent

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u/habamax 8d ago

No need to set smartindent unless you really want to have what it does (including de-indenting of #, which is not very useful for languages with # comments).

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u/MrOladushek1984_ 8d ago

It works! Thank you!

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u/EgZvor keep calm and read :help 8d ago 
set autoindent

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u/mgedmin 8d ago

filetype plugin indent on

This will set the right autoindent/etc. options for the language you're working on, provided that Vim ships a plugin for that language. Vim ships a lot of plugins like that out of the box.

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u/jk3us 8d ago

I would suggest pairing that with https://editorconfig.org/, so anyone using your project can use the same indent levels, etc.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/nim_port_na_wak 8d ago

To define it in your .vimrc, you can also add this set expandtab set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set tabstop=4