On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:20, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:04:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:18:14 +0200 > > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but vim uses tabstop to determine how many spaces to put in. Hence > > tabstop to 4, expandtabs on, shiftwidth to 4. Tabstops to know what to do > > when we hit tab, expandtabs on so we don't send it out to other people, > > shiftwidth to know what to do when we want to reindent. > > SO the reason is to inport bad fomrated code, and make that code better > formated. For me thats dosn't make med have to change my editor. As this > still needs a manual step, whan it happens I can change my tabstop to > fix it in that buffer only.
Hello... I think you need to stop for a moment and actually read the messages you are receiving. This has nothing to do with badly formatted code. I repeat, nothing. Here is the desired goal: Use 4 spaces for indent levels and have no tabs in the file. Here is a very easy way to achieve that which does exactly what I want every time: :set ts=4 et It works. period. There is no "better way". There is only "accomplishes that goal", or "doesn't accomplish that goal". This has nothing to do with other people's code. This is what I do for *my* code. Please understand that just because the word "tab" is used in the options that doesn't mean this actually has to do with the \t character -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
