Vim formatting using gg=G with xml

in case you wanna try Vim's own XML indenter thing, you can...

:filetype indent on         (load indent files for specific file types etc.):e                          (to reload the current buffer)

this will load the vimscript at $VIMRUNTIME/indent/xml.vim

then when you do

:set indentexpr?

...it'll say indentexpr=XmlIndentGet(v:lnum, 1)

i have handy keybinding like this for it in my .vimrc!

" one or more lines:vmap ,px !xmllint --format -<CR>" pretty-print current linenmap ,px !!xmllint --format -<CR>

xml vim indentation shortcuts

Try typing: :set equalprg?. If it says equalprg= it means that you do not have a program set for xml indentation, so it's probably doing some dumb default action. Here's a guide for setting xmllint as your formatter: http://ku1ik.com/2011/09/08/formatting-xml-in-vim-with-indent-command.html

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