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Re: Settings for vim for C programming?



> 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.

i run the code through expand(1) to have it expand my tabs to 4
spaces.  i setup a macro to do it for me within vi.
map E :%!expand -4
that works in any vi.

for vim specifically, i've used:
set expandtab

to have it insert spaces instead of tabs for me.
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