On Jan 4, 7:07 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One problem I have is that the >> indent in normal mode doesn't work > > when a line starts with the # character. Any idea what I'm doing > > wrong? > > In short, ">>" *does* indent in normal mode (I presume you > accurately mean "Normal" mode, rather than "Insert" mode). The > question becomes why doesn't it work in your particular copy of Vim? > > To evidence this, start vim with > > vim -u NONE myfile.py > > (which bypasses startup files) and you'll see that >> does indeed > shift commented lines.
It worked just as you described. > > To track down the problem, you'll need to provide a little more > info. Starting Vim the way you normally do, pointed at a > problematic python file, what is the output of > > :scriptnames There are 16 in all. I feel a bit foolish in that I had no idea these were being loaded (sourced?). > > What mappings do you have defined: > > :nmap > > (particularly any mappings for ">" and its kin). > > What are your filetype settings: > > :filetype > > What are your settings for 'indentkeys', 'indentexpr', > 'shiftwidth', 'tabstop', 'expandtab' and 'filetype' > > :set indentkeys? indentexpr? sw? ts? et? ft? > > Which version of Vim are you using: > > :version 7.1 under Cygwin on Windows XP > > Hopefully some of those will point you at the problem child. > Otherwise, drop by the Vim mailing list and there are a lot of > other smart cookies there that may have other ideas. > > -tkc Thanks; this is already really helpful. I'm going to try to sift through those 16 scripts and try to familiarize myself with vim customization a bit more. I may be back, but you've given me some help to get over the hump and start learning the tool. Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
