Despite not agreeing with all of it, “Just Use Sublime Text” (an invective against Vim — or, more accurately, against recommending Vim to anyone who isn’t already indoctrinated by it) by Andrew Ray is an interesting read. The section dealing with indenting in particular struck a chord with me:
Paste this into an empty buffer:
<div> <p> <span>foo</span> </p> </div>
:set ft=html
and thengg=G
. Let me know what you get. In all seriousness, never, ever tell me what you get.
As I said in a tweet, what I got didn’t offend me too much. But many people would argue that the <span>
tag should be indented inside the <p>
tag. I’d probably do this myself, actually — and there have been aspects of Vim’s indenting that irk me. So I set about finding a solution.