How can I format JS code in Vim?

Question

I have this bit of JavaScript...

 15   $(\'.ajax_edit_address\').each(function() {
 16     $(this).ajaxForm({
 17       target: $(this).parents(\'table.addre         


        

Answer 1

The biggest issue seems to be the cindent doesn't recognize this type of syntax:

test({
  var b = 2;
});

It will turn it into this:

test({
    var b = 2;
    });

If you handle that case I'd imagine the indent wouldn't be so awful for the jQuery syntax. But this would require you writing a custom javascript indent file. Also, you'd have to edit the html indent file to not use cindent for script tags with javascript content.

I don't think anyone has successfully created a jquery/prototype compatible indent file for javascript. The existing javascript indent scripts are all flawed.