.config VS vim-sleuth

I've done my best to keep my config simple and sane: https://github.com/heygarrett/.config/tree/main/nvim

One option the docs don't list is using an autocommand, which is what I do because I overrule the indentation options for all file types.

I use a combination of guess-indent.nvim and :h listchars. Here's how I use them together in my config.

I even wrote my own autocmd for auto-completion, which was a lot of fun and helped me learn a lot about Neovim. Together with nvim-snippy it meets all of my needs (so far).

I'm late to the party, but I did configure my statusline without a plugin: - Screenshot - Config

I added an autocmd to make it automatic.

I learned a lot, and I created my own automated workflow for sessions that I’m quite happy about. I think the best part is it may not cover every use case I encounter, which means I get to keep learning and I get to become more familiar with a tool I use daily.

I use this in my custom statusline config, which you can see here.

This is how I currently configure my indentation. The autocmd overrides anything set by the ftplugin files during startup, and that's the easiest method I've found keep my preferences across every file type.

I think the built-in filetype plugin files are sourced after your vimrc. I got around this by adding an autocmd to re-set my indentation preferences after the ftplugins are loaded.

In addition to setting tabstop and shiftwidth, you might also like this plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth

vim-sleuth auto detects tab size so...

Just add https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth and never worry about it again.

At the end of the day I don't really care which a project goes with, I've always just used vim-sleuth to automatically set my tab key to input whatever the current file's indentation is.

VsCode has an internal function from auto-detecting indentation, while my config uses vim-sleuth with indent-blankline.nvim.

If you work a lot on legacy codebases, https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth is probably more what you need than editorconfig, as it will work even when one is not present.

The primary advantage of using it is that it has built in heuristics for detecting line wrapping when opening a file (with some Treesitter magic for Markdown to make it more accurate), and also allows for manual swapping between wrapping types. You can think of it as the wrapping equivalent to vim-sleuth.

I just found about Tim Pope's sleuth: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth It supports editorconfig but it also seems to have just better heuristics when an editorconfig file isn't present, so I just decided to replace `editorconfig-vim` with it.

Another solution is try sleuth.vim, that sets automatically your indentation based on the project, buffer and editorconfig