indent-o-matic VS vim-sleuth

there is indent-o-matic

I use indent-o-matic, along with these defaults:

I use https://github.com/Darazaki/indent-o-matic currently and set it with a keymap when that fails.

I do use a plugin to match the indentation of existing files (indent-o-matic), and that overrides my own indentation preferences; matching the indentation style of an existing codebase is more important than my own preferences or a language style guide. But if I'm starting a new project I stick to tabs for accessibility (unless it would cause whitespace syntax problems).

How does it compare to IndentOMatic?

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