Thanks for the clarification!

I might spend some time working on changing the behavior in vim
(particularly for indenting single lines) if other people are also
interested.

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Raphael Proust <raphlalou@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Niki Yoshiuchi <aplusbi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've started using this with vim and I've noticed a few things.  I'm not
> > sure if it's by design or if they are bugs.
> >
> > First, I have vim setup to use 4 spaces for indentation.  When editing an
> > OCaml file, it continues to respect the 4 space indent while writing
> code.
> > In other words, while writing code I'll end up with something like this
> > (dots represent spaces):
> >
> > let my_fun f =
> > . . . . let nested_fun g =
> > . . . . . . . . (* content *)
> >
> > However if I then select the text and and hit "=" it re-indents it using
> two
> > spaces per nesting level.
>
> This is not a bug in either vim nor ocp-indent. It is a bug in your
> configurations (they are not in sync). You can either setup ocp-indent
> to use 4 spaces or vim to use 2. See `ocp-indent --config help` for
> the former, and `:h tabstop` and `:h softtabstop` for the latter.
>
> >
> > The second thing I've noticed is that "=" indents only relative to the
> > selected text.  In other words, if I have
> >
> >
> > let my_fun f =
> > . . let nested_fun g =
> > . . . . (* content *)
> > . . . . (* more content *)
> >
> > and I hit "=" while the cursor is on the third line I end up with:
> >
> > let my_fun f =
> > . . let nested_fun g =
> > (* content *)
> > . . . . (* more content *)
> >
> > Doing something like "ggVG=" will properly indent the text.
>
> This is the expected behaviour. ocp-indent is only given the selected
> text and thus can only work correctly when receiving complete blocks.
> (Indentation is relative to the first line of the chunk that is
> passed.)
>
> You can pass a full paragraph using `=ap` ("ap" stands for "a
> paragraph", see `:h ap` for help). You can also use blocks. For more
> information on these, see `:h text-objects`.
>
> Note that you can do `gg=G` (move, action, move) instead of `ggvG=`
> (move, mode, move, action). It is only marginally shorter but, more
> importantly, it will preserve your `'<` and `'>` marks (see, `:h '>`
> for more explanations). (And dually, you can replace `=ap` (action,
> object) by `vap=` (mode, object, action).)
>
> >
> > Thanks for the great work on making OCaml more usable!  My code has never
> > looked cleaner.
> >
> > -Niki Yoshiuchi
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Louis Gesbert <
> louis.gesbert@ocamlpro.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the feedback and few bug reports during the past  week of
> >> beta-
> >> test.
> >>
> >> We can now announce the 1.0.0 release of ocp-indent, available on opam.
> >>
> >> Enjoy!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Louis, OCamlPro
> >>
> >> Le vendredi 8 février 2013 16:25:29, Louis Gesbert a écrit :
> >> > OCamlPro is proud to announce the beta-release of ocp-indent.
> >> >
> >> > Ocp-indent is a simple tool, entirely written in OCaml, which sole
> >> > purpose
> >> > is to indent OCaml code. It can plug-in seamlessly into emacs' tuareg
> >> > mode, or be run from vim.
> >> >
> >> > You can try it now with:
> >> >
> >> > $ opam install ocp-indent
> >> >
> >> > $ INSTDIR="$(opam config var prefix)/share/typerex/ocp-indent"
> >> >
> >> > $ echo '(load-file "'"$INSTDIR/ocp-indent.el"'")' >>~/.emacs
> >> >
> >> > $ echo 'autocmd FileType ocaml source '"$INSTDIR"'/ocp-indent.vim'
> >> > >>~/.vimrc
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Or check it out at https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocp-indent
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It presents many improvements over the tuareg indentation engine, a
> much
> >> > better understanding of the syntax, linear complexity, specific
> handling
> >> > for many cases. Also, it was intentionally provided with much less
> >> > customisation options.
> >> >
> >> > Feel free to submit any code snippet that is not indented to your
> taste,
> >> > to
> >> > help us improve ocp-indent further.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Some comparison with tuareg on a few big OCaml projects can be seen at
> >> > http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/AltGr/ocp-indent-
> >> > tests/blob/master/status.html
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Louis Gesbert, OCamlPro
> >>
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>
>
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> Raphaël Proust
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