vim indentation in C++ constructor initialization list

Question

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
class Example
{
    public:
        Example(int a,int b,int c):m_a(a),m_b(b),m_c(c)
    {  // Wrong indentation here due to the colon in above line, { should be under E
        printf("\nThe 3 argument constructor invoked\n");
    } // Wrong indentation again
    private:
        int m_a;
        int m_b;
        int m_c;
};

Hi all,

I have a little problem in gvim's indentation in the constructor initialization list in C++. I am using cindent in the .gvimrc and i am unable to solve this problem even after changing my .gvimrc a number of times.

Can some benevolent soul give me some method to set this up. I have tried changing cinoptions as well as cinwords but nothing really helped.

I have highlighted the indentation problem in the code snippet provided above.

Thanks for your patience

Regards lali

Answer 1

Try :set smartindent, I had to disable cindent first to get it working.

Answer 2

I don't know if this is an option, but you could have a look at astyle. We use TextMate at work, and the (default?) indentation scheme is not what we want some of the time. But mostly it follows the indentation of the previous line after pressing enter or something.

The solution we use is simply piping the full source of the file through astyle (using appropriate options), and this is bound to a shortcut key. This is afaik also possible with vim.

Answer 3

:set cino=i0