Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

[Rohan Deshpande <rdzx@home.com>]

Hey Mark,

Try www.linuxbrit.co.uk for some good settings for lots of programs,
including C.  

-rohan

* mdevin@ozemail.com.au (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C
> program .c files.  The problem is that when I print out the source code
> (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops
> are by default 8 spaces.
> 
> What is the best way to deal with this?
> 
> What I have currently in my /etc/vimrc is the following:
> """""""""""""""""""" C programming stuff """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> syntax on               "syntax highlighting
> "set tabstop=4  (default is 8)
> set softtabstop=4
> set shiftwidth=4
> set pastetoggle=<F4>
> 
> So you can see that I have commented out the previous tabstop setting of
> 4 so that the default is now active, but have added the softtabstop=4
> option and left shiftwidth=4.
> 
> I think that this adds 4 spaces when you press tab.  And if an automatic
> indentation occurs (while writing c source code), it will add 4 spaces
> if the indentation is less than 8 spaces from the side or a combination
> of tabs and spaces if the indentation is more than 8 spaces from the
> side.
> 
> Is this correct?  If not how do you do it properly?
> 
> How do all you guys do it?  Basically, I just want my source code, to look
> to everyone else, as it looks to me, when they edit it, or I print it out.
> But I want to be able to use more of the screen by using tabspaces of 4.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Regards.
> Mark.
> 
> 
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