Mike's Blabberings » vim http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog on software, testing, and the web. Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 VIM Tip of the Day: leave python comments indented, don’t put cursor at beginning of the line http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/2009/05/vim-tip-of-the-day-leave-python-comments-indented-dont-put-cursor-at-beginning-of-the-line/ http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/2009/05/vim-tip-of-the-day-leave-python-comments-indented-dont-put-cursor-at-beginning-of-the-line/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 17:18:32 +0000 Mike http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/?p=305 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, throw the following in your $HOME/.vimrc.

:inoremap # X<C-H>#

See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Restoring_indent_after_typing_hash

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