smartindent doesn't allow one to manually indent lines beginning with "#"

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The shortcut >> doesn't indent lines that start with # for me in either C or Python when smartindent is set.

If anyone has a workaround, that would be cool; I'm also posting this let people know (it was rather confusing and frustrating why that key wasn't working).

Possible duplicate of [How to configure vim to not put comments at the beginning of lines while editing python files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/354097/how-to-configure-vim-to-not-put-comments-at-the-beginning-of-lines-while-editing) — dlmeetei, Sep 21 '17 at 13:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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This is discussed in a related post on SO, which refers to :h smartindent and recommends setting nosmartindent as a workaround. Are you using filetype indent on to get the full language-dependent indenting?:

Vim automatically removes indentation on Python comments

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dlmeetei · Answer 2 · 2017-09-21T13:36:40.207

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Yes, the behavior is expected >> does not work with # as documented in :help smartindent. The doc also has a work around given:

:inoremap # X^H#

where ^H is entered as Ctrl + V Ctrl + H

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answered Feb 02 '16 at 20:51

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smartindent doesn't allow one to manually indent lines beginning with "#"

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