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Tip 221 Previous Next Created: February 26, 2002 Complexity: intermediate Author: Alexey Marinichev Version: 6.0

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I want to indent java files like this:

int x(int y, int z)
    throws Exception
{
    [...]
    return something;
}

By default Vim will properly indent "throws" line, but following "{" will not be deindented back to the method declaration.

The following indentexpr does the trick:

let &indentexpr='getline(v:lnum)=~"^\\s*{" && getline(v:lnum-1)=~"^\\s*throws\\s" ? cindent(v:lnum)-&sw : cindent(v:lnum)'

It just checks that the current line starts with "{" and the previous line starts with "throws" and if that is the case, it subtracts one shiftwidth from the number returned by cindent.

[edit] Comments

Vim 6.1a.026 adds a more general solution to the Java indent file.

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