[SOLVED] How can I turn off the annoying auto indent tabs in VIM?

TomB17 · 2009-09-03 16:38:26

I'm coding in Python and VIM is auto-tabbing each new line. It's a real buzz kill.

When I hit enter at the left margine, even when there is nothing on the line above the cursor, it shoots out a tab and three spaces. I've switched to nano but feel lost without VIM. I've never seen this behavior before. I've turned off all of the auto indentation options I can think of.

***** begin .vimrc *****

set noautoindent
set nosmartindent
set noindentexpr
set nocindent

***** end .vimrc *****

Thanks!

[UPDATE]

I wish I could delete this post. ... anyway... the solution was:

set indentexpr=''

Last edited by TomB17 (2009-09-03 16:41:07)

TomB17 · 2009-09-03 21:02:50

Unfortunately, I have to do a ":set indexexpr='' " each time I start VIM. I've got it in the .vimrc but it seems to be ignored.

I'm used to Ubuntu and this feels really weird. It's like profiles aren't processed.

I would appreciate it if somoeone would point me in the correct direction.

Last edited by TomB17 (2009-09-03 21:03:20)

BetterLeftUnsaid · 2009-09-04 00:28:06

I might be incorrect about this, but I think there's issues with /etc/vimrc conflicting with ~/.vimrc
You might want to try moving /etc/vimrc to /etc/vimrc.bak, or something similar.

jwcxz · 2009-09-04 00:48:57

Are you using ~/.virc or ~/.vimrc? My system doesn't respect .vimrc, but it does load data from .virc.

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#1 2009-09-03 16:38:26

[SOLVED] How can I turn off the annoying auto indent tabs in VIM?

#2 2009-09-03 21:02:50

Re: [SOLVED] How can I turn off the annoying auto indent tabs in VIM?

#3 2009-09-04 00:28:06

Re: [SOLVED] How can I turn off the annoying auto indent tabs in VIM?

#4 2009-09-04 00:48:57

Re: [SOLVED] How can I turn off the annoying auto indent tabs in VIM?

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