[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

[gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

[John Blinka]

Hi, all,

I'm one of those people who don't like editors doing things automatically
because I find the automatic feature often does something other than what
I intended.

I've noticed recently that when I edit configuration files in /etc, vim 
likes
to insert a leading "# " in new lines following existing comment lines.  
That's
almost never what I want to do, and I almost always have to delete the # and
space before doing what I intended.

I don't even know what to call this behavior, so I don't even know where to
look in the vim documentation.

Anybody know how to turn this behavior off?  I've got the latest stable 
versions
of vim, vim-core, and gentoo-syntax installed on my systems.

Thanks for your help.

John Blinka

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

[Philip Webb]

070223 John Blinka wrote:
> when I edit configuration files in /etc,
> vim likes to insert a leading "# " in new lines
> following existing comment lines.  
> That's almost never what I want to do
> and I have to delete the # and space before doing what I intended.
> I've got the latest stable versions of vim, vim-core
> and gentoo-syntax installed on my systems.
> Anybody know how to turn this behavior off?

I tested with a file in  /etc  & it doesn't happen for me.

> I don't even know where to look in the vim documentation.

Google 'vim automatic comment' finds sect 30.6 of the Vim User Manual,
which covers something similar; also

  http://ianua.initd.org/vimit/vim63/html/change.html#fo-table

which seems to cover what you describe under options 'r' & 'o'.

Perhaps this will get you started, if no-one else has more precise info.

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? - SOLVED

[John Blinka]

Philip Webb wrote:
>
> Google 'vim automatic comment' finds sect 30.6 of the Vim User Manual,
> which covers something similar; also
>
>   http://ianua.initd.org/vimit/vim63/html/change.html#fo-table
>
> which seems to cover what you describe under options 'r' & 'o'.
>
> Perhaps this will get you started, if no-one else has more precise info.
>   
Thanks - sometimes the right Google phrase is all it takes.  From your
hint I found http://www.bioinspired.com/users/ajg112/computing/vim.shtml
which explains exactly how to do what I want.

John Blinka

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