On Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:24:53 PM UTC-6, Danny Gratzer wrote: > I am writing an indentation script for a simple language. The language is has > very simple constructs and the indentation really only has 3 rules: > > > 1. A comment has goes from a // until a newline, anything in a comment should > be ignored. > > > > 2. If the line above contains a semi-colon, the indentation should be 0. > > > 3. Otherwise, indent to 1 more than the most recent unbalanced ( and to 4 > spaces if all paranthesis are balanced. > > > > The last rule is kinda stumping me, does anyone have any advice? > >
I'd try using the searchpair() or searchpairpos() functions for an exact solution which works in all cases. Or a simpler solution might just check the previous line for an opening (, but this will be hard to get right for nested parentheses groups. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
