Work has picked up in the last little while and on top of that, I’m buying a new house and am preparing for the move. After the move finishes I should be able to do another one. The only real problem is that the new videos are going to be of the intermediate and advanced quality and those take a lot more thought and time :)

I appreciate all the great responses, encouragement and all the interest! Keep reading those help files and stay tuned…

Using an Autocommand

You can do this with an autocmd in your vimrc. Let’s assume you want to change some of the indenting rules for perl and html.

augroup indent_settings
    au!
    au BufEnter *.pl setl autoindent smartindent
    au BufEnter *.html setl noautoindent nosmartindent
augroup END

The above will do a setlocal when entering a perl or html file. It will turn autoindent to ‘on’ and smartindent to ‘on’ when you enter a buffer containing a perl file, and will turn them off when entering a buffer containing an html file.

Dropping the commands in a filetype file

You can also choose to organize things into separate ftplugin files in your runtime directory. If we want to continue with the perl and html examples above, you would do the following:

In ftplugin/perl.vim:

setl autoindent
setl smartindent

In ftplugin/html.vim:

setl noautoindent
setl nosmartindent

I may redo this one, not sure yet – it’ll just depend on how much time I’ve got.

Have a look at it right here.

I play an EWI 4000s which is a wicked cool super powerhouse MIDI Controller, but compred to the EigenHarp it looks like it was invented over 20 years ago (which it was :D). The EigenHarp is like some sort of psychedelic Bassoon with its LEDs, tons of keys, and insane levels of control – well, it’s just a beast of a controller.

I can’t wait to see what happens with this thing over the next few years.

You can have a look right here.

I think the next video on the agenda will cover the runtime directory so that we can start dealing with plugins and customization a bit better before we dive back in to some more esoteric editing concepts.