Disable \item indenting on next line

[BigDru]

There is a closed issue (#1245) which has a discussion following closing about indentation after \item elements.
Specifically, in the discussion following the closure there is an example:

(i.e., when pressing ENTER in an itemize environment, I get an additional indent like

\item blabla (ENTER pressed)
     | <--- now here :-(

It was mentioned that if we want to have an option to disable this kind of indentation we should make a new feature request. So here we are :)

For now I am using the following:

let g:vimtex_indent_enabled = 0
let g:tex_indent_items = 0

or in neovim:

vim.g.vimtex_indent_enable = 0
vim.g.tex_indent_items = 0

I imagine the end result would be an option similar to the base tex option. Something like g:vimtex_indent_items which can be set to 0 or 1 (default value).

If the option is cleared (off / 0), the behaviour in the above example would be:

\item blabla (ENTER pressed)
| <--- now here :D

I believe implementation would involve adding a conditional to indent/tex.vim but I'll leave those details to the devs. :)

[lervag]

There is a closed issue (#1245) which has a discussion following closing about indentation after \item elements. Specifically, in the discussion following the closure there is an example:

(i.e., when pressing ENTER in an itemize environment, I get an additional indent like

\item blabla (ENTER pressed)
     | <--- now here :-(

It was mentioned that if we want to have an option to disable this kind of indentation we should make a new feature request. So here we are :)

:)

I believe you may achieve what you want already with this:

let g:vimtex_indent_lists = []

This option specifies which list environments to apply the \item indentations to. Thus, setting it to the empty list should mean that this type of indentation never occurs.

[ilias777]

Are you on Vim or Neovim? With Neovim you can solve the indentation problem with latexindent and Null-ls. For more information you can read the documentation here → LatexIndent.

I am on Mac and I use Neovim. I show you my configuration. (This configuration works only with Neovim)

These are my steps:

• Installing latexindent binary on your system (in my case I installed it with homebrew).
• Installing nvim-lspconfig, if you don't have this already (neovim/nvim-lspconfig).
• Installing null-ls, if you don't have this already (jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim).
• Create a folder in your home directory .latexindent/.
• In this folder create a file mysettings.yaml.
• In this mysettings.yaml file put this lines:

  noAdditionalIndent:
    textit: 1
    footnote: 1
    item: 1

  Here will be disabled the indentation for textit, footnote and item. You need only item: 1, if you want indentation for the others.
• Settings in nvim-lspconfig file:

  local on_attach = function(client, bufnr)
          -- ...
          vim.keymap.set('n', '<space>f', function()
              vim.lsp.buf.format({ async = true })
          end, bufopts)
          -- ...
  end

  Keymap for formatting the buffer.
• Settings in Null-ls file:

  require('null-ls').setup({
          sources = {
              -- ...
              require('null-ls').builtins.formatting.latexindent.with({
                  extra_args = {
                      '-l',
                      '/<your-homedirectory-path>/.indentconfig.yaml',
                  },
              }),
              -- ...
          }
  })

From now every time you press <Space>f your *.tex file will be formatted without indentation in the \item section, or if you have autoformatting on save (settings in null-ls) by saving the file, the file will be automatic formatted.

And it looks like this:

item-ident.mov

I hope this is helpful for you.

[lervag]

With Neovim you can solve the indentation problem with latexindent and Null-ls.

Thanks for this info. As a side note, on Vim, you can use a similar approach with other plugins, e.g. the well know Ale.

Using external tools for formatting and indenting is not a bad idea. I believe the VimTeX indentation function is quite good, but I'll also gladly admit it has its restrictions. Also, it is clearly opinionated. It has always been a goal with VimTeX to allow other options for specific features, so if you want to use external tools for indentation, then you can also disable VimTeXs indent feature with the g:vimtex_indent_enabled option.

[lervag]

I'll close the issue, since I believe my first comment should suffice for resolving the original problem.