Best way to disable runtime/indent/html.vim

[Suresh Govindachar]

Which is the preferred way to diable runtime/indent/html.vim (instead of just renaming the file)?

[Matt Wozniski]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>
> Which is the preferred way to diable runtime/indent/html.vim (instead
> of just renaming the file)?

A well-behaved indent script has a check at the top of it to see whether
the buffer already has some sort of script-based indenting enabled, and
if so does nothing. For example, indent/html.vim has this:

" Only load this indent file when no other was loaded.
if exists("b:did_indent")
finish
endif
let b:did_indent = 1

So, to disable it, you can just make a ~/.vim/indent/html.vim (or
~/vimfiles/indent/html.vim on Windows) and put in it the single line

let b:did_indent = 1

It will be loaded before the system-wide one (because the runtime files
in $HOME take precedence) and stop the system-wide one from doing
anything (because the system-wide one checks that variable).

~Matt

[Ben Fritz]

On Jun 7, 6:43 pm, "Suresh Govindachar" <sgovindac...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Which is the preferred way to diable runtime/indent/html.vim (instead of just renaming the file)?

Matt has given you a good way to disable the indent script for a
single filetype. If you instead want to disable ALL indent scripts,
don't turn them on in the first place. You probably have something
like:

filetype indent plugin on

or

filetype indent on

in your .vimrc. Remove the "indent" keyword and none of your files
will have the vimscript indent rules applied.

[Matt Wozniski]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Ben Fritz wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 6:43 pm, "Suresh Govindachar" wrote:
>> Which is the preferred way to diable runtime/indent/html.vim (instead of just renaming the file)?
>
> Matt has given you a good way to disable the indent script for a
> single filetype. If you instead want to disable ALL indent scripts,
> don't turn them on in the first place. You probably have something
> like:
>
> filetype indent plugin on
>
> or
>
> filetype indent on
>
> in your .vimrc. Remove the "indent" keyword and none of your files
> will have the vimscript indent rules applied.

<pedantic>

Note that if you have a naughty distro that puts "filetype plugin
indent on" in the systemwide vimrc, that won't be enough - you'll need
to instead do

filetype off
filetype plugin on

</pedantic>

~Matt

[Tony Mechelynck]

That won't be enough, because ":filetype off" remembers your settings
for later: it is not the same as ":filetype plugin indent off".

Rather than the two commands above, you should use

filetype indent off

The same applies if you source the vimrc_example.vim (which has a
"filetype plugin indent on" somewhere in it): just unset
filetype-dependent indenting just after sourcing the vimrc_example.vim then.

See ":help :filetype-overview"

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Tony Mechelynck]

Yes, Suresh, this is the right way to disable filetype-specific
indenting for a single filetype.

Renaming the $VIMRUNTIME/indent/html.vim, or editing it in-place, won't
work, because as soon as you bring your runtime files up-to-date
(something which you should do often), you'll get a fresh copy of the
original script, with all your changes removed, and all that without a
warning message to you.

Best regards,
Tony.
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