indent-finder

Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Philippe Fremy

Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Steven Myint

This program is distributed under the BSD license. You should have received a copy of the file LICENSE.txt along with this software.

Introduction

indent-finder is a vim plugin that detects the indentation of a file and sets vim's indentation settings appropriately to match.

Installation

Make sure set nocompatible is in your ~/.vimrc.

To install this plugin, copy the contents of the plugin directory to your ~/.vim/plugin directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/myint/indent-finder
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin/
$ cp -r ./indent-finder/plugin/* ~/.vim/plugin/

Or to install it using pathogen.vim:

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle
$ git clone https://github.com/myint/indent-finder

Command-line usage

To use from command line:

$ ./indent_finder.py test_files/space1/one.cc
space 1

History

2.x

• Always use tabs for makefiles.

1.6.2

• Clean up code.

1.6.1

• Respect user's expandtab and shiftwidth settings.
• Detect indentation on all files and not just files with . in them.

1.6

• Support one-space indentation.

1.5.1

• Improve performance.

1.5

• Simplify installation process.
• Detect when files have no valid indentation.
• Add Python 3 support.
• Default to user's tabstop when necessary.

1.4

• Improve the heuristic, some file where incorrectly reported as tab when being mixed.
• ('tab', 4) was returned instead of DEFAULT_OUTPUT when no decision could be made. This is now configurable.
• vim_output() now includes a comment about the detected indentation.

1.31

• The --vim-output was not working. Fixed in this version.

1.3

• Remove indent_checker, this was a useless program.
• Improve the indentation algorithm to be able to detect mixed type indentation.
• Detect mixed type indentation, like the one used in Vim source files.

1.2

• Add indent_checker, to check the consistency of the indentation of a source tree.

1.1

• Improve the heuristic by detecting indentation steps.