Re: vim & tab & space

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs
> thread from debian-devel two months ago.
> 
> In vim, what is the setting to use tab for indent and space for alignment? I
> couldn't figure it out since vim always try to use tab instead of space.
> 
> e.g. when I use ts=4, sw=4 and has a line like this
> 
> [tab][tab]printf ("Hello World \
> 
> when I press enter vim will try to insert [tab] like
> 
> [tab][tab][tab][tab]here I can start typing again\n");
> 
> 
> What is the setting to get rid of the third (and forth and ..) tab that is
> not for indenting but for aligning?

I believe you're referring to "cindent", when syntax=c is on...

:set cindent=off ???

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>