vim + auto indent

[MrTom]

vim is really trying my patience!!

by default it seems as tho auto-indent is on and it's really annoying. i tried putting 'set noai' in the global vimrc and in ~/.vimrc but it keeps on auto-indenting. all my ~/.vimrc has is the noai so i don't see why it doesn't work. have i missed another option?

please help me!

 

[greadey]

Don't know loads about this but maybe you need to write

:set noai

i.e. the colon tells vim it is a command.

 

[MrTom]

i had a line in my vimrc....

filetype plugin indent on

and that seemed to overwrite my ~/vimrc and even entering the command like u suggsted!

sorry for postin in the wrong forum

 

[greadey]

well in my .vimrc I have the line;

:set tabstop=4 #Obviously to set tabstops to 4 spaces

and it works every time. In other words I have written it exactly as I would on the vim command line.