Something keeps setting shiftwidth=8, when I set it to 4

[Hyperlynx2]

After installing this plugin, seemingly at random when I work on a c++ file and I hit tab, I get \t\t instead of \t. Whenever this happens, I do :shiftwidth and it says shiftwidth=8.

My shiftwidth is 4, set in my vimrc. Something in this plugin is changing it, for whatever reason. The issue has only started happening since installing this plugin.

Very annoying!

[rhysd]

That's because your LSP server specifies indent size. Check format options of your C++ LSP server to modify the size to your favorite one.

https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp/blob/296fb98d198cbbb5c5c937c09b84c8c7a9605a16/autoload/lsp/utils/buffer.vim#L68

You can check where the option was set:

:verbose set shiftwidth

[Hyperlynx2]

It seems to be getting set by various old syntax files that I haven't used or looked at in years, such as syntax/make.vim and syntax/vb.vim. However, I'm not editing a makefile or vb file. These files shouldn't have been sourced...

I just split a window to a new hpp file, discovered the shiftwidth set to 2, tried :verbose set shiftwidth (thank you for that!) and it told me the source was my syntax/vb.vim. Which is very weird.

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