Thread: Gvim stopped auto indenting

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    Gvim stopped auto indenting

    All of a sudden it will not auto indent , and I didn't make any changes to settings . ANyone know how to fix this ? ( I am using the windows version 7.1 )

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    What about a completely new source file, in another directory.
    Is that similarly affected?
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    For example, the command set autoindent, you can type :set autoindent or :set ai. To unset it, you can type :set noautoindent or :set noai.
    From http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#settings

    You could put that into your configuration file.

    I don't know why it would stop in the first place, though. Did you start using a different filename extension? Perhaps it only autoindents for .c files and not .txt files or something.
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