December 10, 2009

use vim to auto format your code/document

Load your code/document, and make sure the filetype is what you what. (use :set to see what filetype is set to).

Turn indent on, and then do "gg=G".

For example, to autoformat a xml file.

1) :set filetype=xml
2) :filetype indent on
3) gg=G
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/09/2011 8:18 AM

    Great, thanks!

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  2. Anonymous2/24/2011 11:38 AM

    Thanks a lot

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  3. Anonymous3/03/2011 10:42 AM

    I wouldn't use the word "autoformat", it does not format, "=" autoindents.

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  4. Anonymous12/06/2011 7:58 AM

    very nice!

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  5. Anonymous1/30/2012 7:26 AM

    Thanks really much:)

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  6. ddelrio19863/15/2012 1:19 PM

    This was very helpful. I also wanted to first put each XML tag on its own line because they were all on one line. I did that first with this:

    :%s/></>\r</g

    Then I used your command to automatically indent everything.

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  7. Anonymous1/20/2013 10:35 AM

    Have a look at https://github.com/Chiel92/vim-autoformat

    This vim plugin allows you to not only reindent your code, but also to reformat it.

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  8. Anonymous4/05/2013 7:29 AM

    Thanks! That's really handy.

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