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Maintain indentation from previous row in vim

What is the name of the option which keeps the indentation when moving to a new row.

Example

Subject
    This is indented and now i press enter
    I would like indentation to happen automatically

Subject
    This is indented and now i press enter
I currently start here here and indent manually
Solution

  • From the manual (:help indent.txt):

    autoindent uses the indent from the previous line

    ...so:

    :set autoindent

    If this does not work for you try starting Vim without plugins and skipping .vimrc initializations:

    vim -u NONE -N