Vim Settings

Some tips for configuring Vim for RAMCloud.
If you don't know what these do, see Vim's help pages.
If you need help, ask Diego.

Comments

• Automatically add the asterisk when you hit enter inside a Doxygen comment

  formatoptions+=ro

• Enable the doxygen plugin to highlight inside Doxygen comments

  " before syntax on: let g:load_doxygen_syntax=1

Whitespace/Indenting

• 4-spaces, no tabs

  set et ts=4 sw=4

• some more sanity

  set smarttab cindent cin0=(0

• make trailing whitespace stand out

  • You could do this, but it's annoying while you're typing:

    syntax match Error "\s\+$" syntax match Error "\t"

  • This can be configured to be less intrusive:

    set list