VIM -- Frustrated With Perl Comments?

vimmers --

i've been writing LOTS of perl and CSS lately. one thing that has been frustrating for, oh, the last FIVE years, has been how VIM indents perl comments and CSS properties with 'cindent' enabled.

<ul> <li>since they look like C preprocessor directives, perl comments are shoved back to column 1 (e.g. "# unintelligible regex").</li> <li>CSS properties are given the same treatment, since they look like C labels (e.g. "margin-right:1em;").</li> </ul> i like everything about cindent, except for the two cases above. for the work i'm doing now, i'd gladly give up C preprocessor and label indenting for better Perl and CSS behavior.

anyhow, i just decided to solve this problem once and for all. of course, VIM can do exactly what i want it to, it's just a matter of figuring out the right stuff to put in .vimrc . so here it is:

<pre> set cindent set cinkeys=0{,0},!^F,o,O,e <font color=green>" default is: 0{,0},0),:,0#,!^F,o,O,e</font> </pre>

that's it ... hopefully this can help out someone else who has been frustrated by cindent's behavior too.