Improve handling of multiline strings (#50)

[etc/vim.git] / README.rst

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@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ vim-python-pep8-indent
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent.png?branch=travis
    :target: https://travis-ci.org/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent
 
-This small script modifies vim_’s indentation behavior to comply with PEP8_ and my aesthetic preferences.
+This small script modifies Vim_’s indentation behavior to comply with PEP8_ and my aesthetic preferences.
 Most importantly::
 
    foobar(foo,
-         bar)
+          bar)
 
 and::
 
@@ -53,6 +53,28 @@ Follow the instructions on installing NeoBundle_ and add the appropriate NeoBund
    NeoBundle 'hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent'
 
 
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+python_pep8_indent_multiline_string
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can configure the initial indentation of multiline strings using ``g:python_pep8_indent_multiline_string`` (which can also be set per buffer).
+This defaults to ``0``, which means that multiline strings are not indented.
+``-1`` and positive values will be used as-is, where ``-1`` is a special value for Vim's ``indentexpr``, and will keep the existing indent (using Vim's ``autoindent`` setting).
+``-2`` is meant to be used for strings that are wrapped with ``textwrap.dedent`` etc.  It will add a level of indentation if the multiline string started in the previous line, without any content in it already::
+
+   testdir.makeconftest("""
+       _
+
+With content already, it will be aligned to the opening parenthesis::
+
+   testdir.makeconftest("""def pytest_addoption(parser):
+                        _
+
+Existing indentation (including ``0``) in multiline strings will be kept, so this setting only applies to the indentation of new/empty lines.
+
+
 Notes
 -----
 
@@ -67,13 +89,13 @@ Therefore, if you want to use this version specifically, you’ll have to disabl
 License and Authorship
 ----------------------
 
-This script is based on one from vim’s official `script repo`_  that was *not* originally written by me.
+This script is based on one from Vim’s official `script repo`_  that was *not* originally written by me.
 Unfortunately the indentation was off by one character in one case and the script hasn’t been updated since 2005.
 
 Even more unfortunately, I wasn’t able to reach any of the original authors/maintainers:
 **David Bustos** and **Eric Mc Sween**.
 
-So I fixed the annoyance it with the help of `Steve Losh`_ and am putting it out here so you don’t have to patch the original yourself.
+So I fixed the annoyance with the help of `Steve Losh`_ and am putting it out here so you don’t have to patch the original yourself.
 The original patch is still available here_.
 
 Over the time a lot more improvements have been contributed_ by `generous people`_.
@@ -86,7 +108,7 @@ While my Vimscript_ skills are still feeble, I intend to maintain it for now.
 This mainly means that I’ll triage through bugs and pull requests but won’t be fixing much myself.
 
 
-.. _vim: http://www.vim.org/
+.. _Vim: http://www.vim.org/
 .. _PEP8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
 .. _`script repo`: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=974
 .. _`Steve Losh`: http://stevelosh.com/
@@ -99,4 +121,4 @@ This mainly means that I’ll triage through bugs and pull requests but won’t
 .. _me: https://hynek.me/
 .. _CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 .. _contributed: https://github.com/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
-.. _`generous people`: https://github.com/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
+.. _`generous people`: https://github.com/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent/graphs/contributors