Re: vim expandtab

["Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed vim on my potato box.  It seems to be a great vi
> replacement.  But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when
> the tab button is presses.  I think I have to set the expandtab setting
> by the command:
> 
> :set et
> 
> But this doesn't seem to always work.  Most notably when I use the
> command O or o.  When I use these commands there is still an 8space tab
> that is inserted.  Is there any way to get the tab repacement option to
> work all the time...  I want it to act like nedit does with the emulate
> tab option.

    There are two options to change in Vi/Vim.

    tabstop, and shiftwidth. 
    
    Personally, I prefer 4 spaces to all tabs, so the following does it for
me:

    set expandtab
    set ts=4
    set sw=4

    Mike

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