Development:vim
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Setting up Vim for Moodle Development
There are many powerful features available in vim, here are a few tips to ensure you get powerful use out of vim with moodle development
Indentation
Moodle Coding Guidelines state that indentation should be spaces of 4 spaces (not Tabs). Some .vimrc options will help you adhere to these guidelines with ease:
" insert space characters whenever the tab key is presse set expandtab " insert 4 spaces characters when tab key is pressed set tabstop=4 " insert 4 spaces wen autoindent indents set shiftwidth=4 " automatically indent files set autoindent " Do smart indentation depending on code syntax (e.g. change after { }, keywords etc) set smartindent
Syntax Highlighting
Recent versions of vim have robust syntax highlighting for php. In order to switch syntax highlighting on add the following to your .vimrc:
" set syntax highliging on syntax on