On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:51:48PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090610160715.ga22...@tomgeorge.info>, Thomas H. George wrote: > >I want indent set to 3, the default setting 8 uses up too much space. > > > >There is a plethora of information in /usr/share/vim/vim71 but it all > >seems to relate to turning indent on for various situations. Somewhere > >there must be a simple line indent=8 that I can change but I haven't > >found it. > > Your ~/.vimrc, ~/.virc, or ~/.exrc (the first one that exists) can be used > to run any command each time vim is started. > > Ben gives possibly correct commands. Use ":help 'tabstop'" and ":help > 'shiftwidth'" from within vim to determine is those are the settings you > want.
also have a look at help modelines (in vim)
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