Setting vi indentation to k&r style?

kermit · December 19, 2008, 5:05pm

A bit of searching on Google did not seem to yield any really helpful results on how to set vim to use k&r indentation style. I know Emacs has such a feature, but does vim? If so, how do I turn it on? I am just starting to learn vi, and when I am coding in C it looks really ugly without some sort of indent style going on....

spirtle · December 23, 2008, 4:58am

You can make a start with

:set autoindent

or

:set cindent

and

:set shiftwidth=4

which sets the number of spaces to indent by.
You can then do all manner of C-specific fine-tuning by setting cinoptions, described in detail in the vim documentation, or you could search for some ready-made cinoptions that give a K&R style.

kermit · December 26, 2008, 8:04pm

spirtle:

You can make a start with
:set autoindent
or
:set cindent
and
:set shiftwidth=4
which sets the number of spaces to indent by.
You can then do all manner of C-specific fine-tuning by setting cinoptions, described in detail in the vim documentation, or you could search for some ready-made cinoptions that give a K&R style.

Thanks - the search term 'cinoptions' worked well.