Hi, what do you mean by making autoindent to work? ViEmu under both VS and SQL Server provides the built-in VS or SQL Server autoindent, which is active in insert mode when you press 'return'. This depends on the language service for the type of file you are editing - so it might just be non-existent for non-supported file types. But it doesn't have anything to do with ViEmu - you get the same as with stock VS or SSMS.

ViEmu works like that under Word/Outlook too, but since Word & Outlook don't provide any interesting autoindent, you get nothing. You do get autostyling and autocorrection though, as provided by the Word engine.

Actually, 'insert mode' is mostly the same as having ViEmu pass everything through, thus buying you the underlying input system. Of course, ViEmu remembers what it has passed through for later '.' repetition, and this requires some heavy lifting to properly understand Intellisense autocompletions and so on, but that's about it.

If you disable ViEmu under SqlServer using the Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V hotkey, do you get autoindent back? If not, can you let me know what file type you are editing? I'll try to reproduce it here, or if not, I'll find out how to *restore* autoindent, and then we can work on having ViEmu work fine without disrupting autoindent.

Regards,

  - Jon

I'm not all too familiar with SQL myself either (ViEmu/SQL is the only one of my products that I don't use all the time). I've been investigating it, and it just seems Management Studio in SQL Server 2005 does not provide auto-indent at all:

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=484209&SiteID=1

Not weird, as they don't support any type of Intellisense-like autocompletion (Red Gate software sells a tool that provides at least autocompletion and seems to provide auto-indentation too, at 200 bucks a pop! - these things always make me rethink my prices, so don't point me in their direction too much ). Here's a link: http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm .

Ok, so we're down to manual indenting. Using ViEmu, you can use the '>' and '<' operators in normal mode: >> or << for a single line, 5>> or 5<< for 5 lines, >} or <} for the paragraph, V and move around plus > or < for a visual region, etc...

While in insert mode, Ctrl-T and Ctrl-D also indent and unindent the current line.

I don't know whether SQL Server 2008 fixes it (I've just made sure ViEmu works fine with it), although it's still in "CTP" status (some kind of beta).

I'm sorry the lookout is so ugly, there's not much I can do about it. Writing a parser and an autoindent service for SQL is out of my reach by now...

Regards,

  - Jon