gnuindent.vim

This is a replacement for cindent to indent GNU code like in libstdc++. Execute
the SetupGnuIndent command and you’re ready to go. The command sets
indentexpr to GnuIndent() and indentkeys to something more helpful. The
function GnuIndent() returns the indent for the requested line, similar to
the cindent() function.

The plugin is not configurable at this point (except via the shiftwidth
option).

Installation

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/mattkretz/start
cd ~/.vim/pack/mattkretz/start
git clone https://github.com/mattkretz/vim-gnuindent

Known Issues

This indenter has to rely on heuristics rather than a full understanding of the
C++ code. Looking at code in isolation (e.g. a<b: template argument list or
less-than operator?) is never enough. But you don’t want to execute a
full-blown C++ front-end in vim-script every time vim requests re-indentation.
It also needs to be fast enough. Indenting whole files already can be quite
slow.

That said, if you find an annoying mis-indentation, please submit an issue.

License

Copyright © Matthias Kretz. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.
See :help license.