Setting up 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
Ctags
See the [Development:ctags|Ctags Article] for details on how to setup ctags usage with moodle and vim
