Miscellaneous: Vi autoindent / startup file
(last edit: 2000-11-22)
                   Vi autoindent
This is realy usefull when you are programming in vi. Autoindenting means that vi helps you
with the tabs in front of your code. Just try it and you'll love it....

Start vi
hit ESC
hit the ':'
type in 'set autoindent' and hit ENTER

now type a line
hit ESC
type '>>'

You'll see that your line moves one tab to the right. Now type a new line below or above. 
You'll see that the new line has the same number of tabs in front as the first one. When 
you want to lower the number of tabs in front of the paragraph you type '<<'.

Personaly I find a tab of 8 characters a bit too long so you can change this by:

hit ESC
hit the ':'
type in 'set shiftwidth=2' and hit ENTER

now you have a tabwidth of 2.

Vi startup file
The above is nice and nifty but I'm to lazy to type that every time vi starts so I've put
these settings in a vi startup file named '$HOME/.nexrc' (thus the file '.nextc' in your
homedir).

This is how my '.nexrc' file looks like:

user@host:~#cat .nexrc
set shiftwidth=2
set autoindent