question about VI

[bob davis]

Jaime Davila wrote:
> Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I've looked everywhere for an 
> answer, with no luck.
> 
> I have set vi to auto indent. I'm having an issue with comments and 
> their indentation. Whenever vi sees that I type the # character, it 
> moves it to the leftmost column. I would like the comment to stay at 
> whatever level of indentation my code is at the time.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution?
> 

I have seen this before when writing perl scripts. But I cant seem to 
get the version I am using right now to do it.
Try:
:help comments

and possibly
:set comments=
should turn off this automatic behavior.