created by

Alexey Radkov

script type

utility

description

This script provides 2 utility commands PrevIndent and AlignWith for doing custom indentation tricks with line under cursor in Insert and Normal modes. Originally there was only one of them: PrevIndent, and that explains the name of the script. Command PrevIndent moves line under cursor to the previous indentation level. Normally this command is not really needed as soon as indentation levels in most file types tend to correspond to the value of the shiftwidth and the result is easily achieved by pressing <C-d> in Insert mode. But this is not a case for some programming languages (for example Haskell indentation rules are very specific). Command PrevIndent simply aligns the beginning of the current line with the first previous line that starts from a less position. Recommended mappings are Insert mode:     imap <silent> <C-d>       <Plug>PrevIndent if you want to replace with PrevIndent standard <C-d> Insert mapping or     imap <silent> <C-g><C-g>  <Plug>PrevIndent (press <C-g> twice) otherwise. Normal mode:     nmap <silent> <C-k>k      :PrevIndent<CR> Another command provided by the script is AlignWith. It finds a symbol that was specified by user dynamically (i.e. using getchar()) in the right hand side of the previous line and aligns beginning of the current line with the column of the found symbol. If a symbol was not found then it is searched from beginning of the previous line. Repeating AlignWith will cycle alignment of the current line to the right through all searched symbols in the previous line. User can specify an order of symbol to search. For example issuing command     :AlignWith 2 and then pressing '(' will skip first found '(' in the previous line and align current line to the second found parenthesis. Recommended mappings are Insert mode:     imap <silent> <C-g>g      <Plug>AlignWith Normal mode:     nmap <silent> <C-k>g      :AlignWith<CR> In both Insert and Normal modes command AlignWith will wait until user enters a character to align with. So for example in Insert mode user must enter <C-g>g and another character after that. Both commands must behave well for different settings of <Tab> expansions.

install details

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
prev_indent.vim	0.3	2014-03-07	7.0	Alexey Radkov	minor improvements and fixes
prev_indent.vim	0.2.2	2013-05-13	7.0	Alexey Radkov	skip empty lines when indenting
prev_indent.vim	0.2.1	2013-05-11	7.0	Alexey Radkov	Fixed command AlignWith in repeated mode
prev_indent.vim	0.2	2013-05-09	7.0	Alexey Radkov	Added command AlignWith to align against arbitrary symbol on the previous line
prev_indent.vim	0.1.1	2013-05-07	7.0	Alexey Radkov	Normal mode supported.
prev_indent.vim	0.1	2013-05-07	7.0	Alexey Radkov	Initial upload

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