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How to disable automatic identation
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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I'm not using anything at the moment.
My intention was to give naked Neovim a spin and make sure it performs how I like Vim to perform. Then once it covers what I consider the basics, I was planning on layering kickstart.nvim on top of it and customizing Kickstart to my odd tastes.
The problem being, my odd tastes include:
1/ ABSOLUTELY NO AUTOINDENT. I hate autoindent with a burning passion, in all circumstances
2/ Must work in an 80-column terminal, meaning no line numbers - or at least line numbers that can be disabled. I've survived 40 years without line numbers, I can go on without them a few more ๐
Right now I'm stuck at 1/ without even having installed Kickstart. I'm not installing it until I manage to disable autoindent. And I still haven't found out how to do that, so I'm back to vanilla Vim for now because I have work to do.
Using a the ubuntu 24.04 docker image for testing, I was able to disable automatic indentation with this config in
~/.config/nvim/init.lua:If you prefer using
vimsyntax it would instead be the following in~/.config/nvim/init.vim:Note: it seems this file is not loaded if a init.lua file is present in that directory
Edit to add: So the reason this is required is, similar to vim (so you may already be familiar with this), there are filetype-specific configurations loaded. These usually reside in
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/<plugin/indent/syntax/etc>/<filetype>. You can configure what files to load using the:filetypecommand.There's more info here: https://neovim.io/doc/user/filetype.html
Second edit: Also when filetype indent/plugin/syntax is on, it seems to be loaded after your user config, so it overrides it. You can investigate if your actual config was applied or not by running, for example,
:set autoindent?or:set cindent?. If the values do not match your configuration, it was likely overridden by:filetype. This was the case for me.What you describe seems to be what the user manual describes. OP did state "I have noautoindent set, nosmartindent set, filetype indent off" I have a hunch that they, comming from vim, used a .vim config file and didn't realize it wasn't loading because a .lua config file was already present in the folder. But this is just speculation.
Ah dang, you're right, I must have read it too quickly. Yeah then I also think it's something about not loading the config, it can be investigated by checking the runtime values like I described in my second edit.