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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