Re: VIM questions

[Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the
> screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I
> invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I
> get rid of that behaviour?

    I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well.  Completely unneeded
and annoying as all hell.  

> 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings?

    Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the
global syntax directory.

> 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was
> mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do
> I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is
> there some other key that is used for that purpose?

    Here's from my .vimrc

set tabstop=2
set expandtab

    expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces.

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