VIM Tip of the Day: leave python comments indented, don’t put cursor at beginning of the line

Posted by Mike on May 15th, 2009

If you’re ever been annoyed by VIM throwing your cursor to the left margin when you type “#” in a python file, there’s a simple remedy. It’s the fault of “smartindent” in VIM, which in reality isn’t all that smart. If you want to leave smartindent on but fix the weird hash behavior, [...]