Ansi C support in Vim [closed]

Answer 1

Are you using windows, you may want to use gVim. gVim doesn't have code completion. To enable K&R style, you must type :set cindent, and disable it by :set nocindent.

Answer 2

I'm under Linux and I use vim in conjunction with:

• YCM to get the autocomplete feature
• I have customized the ftplugin under ~/.vim/ftplugin/cpp.vim a little bit like so

set equalprg=clang-format
nmap <F9> gg=G``a     
imap <F9> <ESC>gg=G``a 
set autoindent     
set cindent

clang-format is part of the clang compiler suite, I don't have any idea if this works under CygWin but equalprg is just a proxy to any program that is capable to format a source file, for example astyle is a quite popular alternative.

With this setup if you press F9 in vim clang-format will be called to format your code.

And that's all I need personally to have a functional vim.

If your computer can handle it, I suggest to just use a Virtual Machine.