Matthias Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Matheson wrote on Sat Jun 02, 2001 at 03:45:30PM: >> 2. How do I set the tab-spacing? I like to code w/ two-space tab-stops, >> but vim defaults to 8 :( > >set tabstop=2 >set expandtabs > >this expands tabs (which is a good idea IMHO) and sets stop to 2.
For the sake of variety, I prefer something like: set softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 noexpandtab ... and leave tabstop the way it is. This inserts tabs instead of eight spaces behind the scenes where appropriate, but tab and backspace-over-tab work as expected. All of the syntax highlighting requires the vim-rt (runtime) package to be installed. You can use things like 'set comments', 'set cinkeys', and 'set cinoptions' to do some really quite cool auto-formatting stuff. See the respective :help sections. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
