On Saturday 03 January 2004 00:16, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a way to turn auto-indent on in gvim or emacs? I am a > programmer and I like the syntax highlighting features of gvim and emacs > (I use gvim), but I have to indent all my statement blocks manually. If > there is a way, I would really like to know how... for vim (try it in a console first, and read the help option) :set autoindent this will indent the following line to the same level as the preceding one this can also be set permanently in ~/.gvimrc and/or ~/.vimrc you can finetune the indentation, including setting up what constitutes a code block (ie, indent lines starting with '{' etc) more useful info: :help autoindent :help indent HTH Stuart ------------------ Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list