indentation

I already know that gg=G can indent the entire file on Vim. But this will make me go to the beginning of the file after indent. How can I indent the entire file and maintain the cursor at the same position? See :h '' This will get you back to the first char on the line you start on: gg=G'' and this will get you back to the starting line and the starting column: gg=G`` I assume the second version, with the backtick, is the one you want. In practice I usually just use the double apostrophe version, since the backtick is hard to access on my keyboard. Add this to your .vimrc function! Preserve

This question already has an answer here: SyntaxError inconsistency in Python? 2 answers First of all - I don't have a problem with bad-indentated code and I have an idea of how does this exception works like. I ask, if there is any way to catch IndentationError in code with a try/except block? For example, let's say I'm writing a test for a function written by someone else. I want to run it in try/except block and handle all warning he/she could make. I know, that it's not a best example, but the first one coming to my mind. Please, don't focus on an example, but rather on problem. Let's look

Is there any way of changing the standard by which NetBeans automatically formats the code when doing "Source->Format"? I seem to remember seeing this option somewhere, but I can't find anything about it. You can change a very limited number of settings related to formatting. open up netbeans IDE Go to tools->options click on Editor button on top left of the options dialog box click on the formatting tab select PHP from the language select box then you would be able to see the required settings that can be changed. Latest version 7.3 will solve most of your needs. The formatting preferences

I've been googling lots and this is getting really frustrating. It doesn't act like idle. Example: else: name = 'World' print 'Howdy', name print 'yay' but in Notepad++ else: # i press enter and this is what it does lands me here But I want to be able to do like in idle: after the : I can just press enter and keep on going. My English isn't that great. I have my filetype set to Python etc. and my format to unix. This is what you want: Settings > Preferences > MISC. > Auto-Indent (checkbox) -- Sometimes people ask, "How can I do x in program y?" I have a dream that one day "Use program z

Is there any way to define custom indent width for .prettify() function? From what I can get from it's source - def prettify(self, encoding=None, formatter="minimal"): if encoding is None: return self.decode(True, formatter=formatter) else: return self.encode(encoding, True, formatter=formatter) There is no way to specify indent width. I think it's because of this line in the decode_contents() function - s.append(" " * (indent_level - 1)) Which has a fixed length of 1 space! (WHY!!) I tried specifying indent_level=4 , that just results in this - <section> <article> <h1> </h1> <p> </p> <

I would like vim to help me indent my xml files like my C code. However, when I use gg=G It just sets everything to the left. Do I need to designate a syntax? Is XML recognized as a language? Idan Arye Put filetype plugin indent on in your .vimrc to have Vim automatically identify .xml files as xml. You might need to put set nocompatible before that. If the file extension is not .xml, you can make Vim threat it like xml by using :set filetype=xml After you do that, Vim's autoindention (and syntax highlighting, and omnicomplete (that in xml just closes tags, but that's still something)) will