Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a328695.5030...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Being disciplined with tabbing (indentation), spacing (alignment), and
line-breaking/word-wrapping can allow your code/text to be beautiful
independent of the viewers tab stop sett
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <32fag6xpln@news.roaima.co.uk>, Chris Davies wrote:
Tabs
are every 8 characters,
No they aren't. Tabs have *never* been that simple. Even on really old
terminals and typewriters tab stops were adjustable.
Yeah, I learned to type on manual typewriters (
In <32fag6xpln@news.roaima.co.uk>, Chris Davies wrote:
>Tabs
>are every 8 characters,
No they aren't. Tabs have *never* been that simple. Even on really old
terminals and typewriters tab stops were adjustable.
The purpose of indenting with tabs is to allow others to choose their ideal
lev
In <4a328695.5030...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> Being disciplined with tabbing (indentation), spacing (alignment), and
>> line-breaking/word-wrapping can allow your code/text to be beautiful
>> independent of the viewers tab stop settings or terminal width.
On Jun 10, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I want indent set to 3, the default setting 8 uses up too much space.
Ben Olive suggest:
> set tabstop=3
> set shiftwidth=3
Actually, you should really consider leaving the tabstop alone. Tabs
are every 8 characters, and if no-one ever fiddled with that it w
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a31939d.4040...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <20090610160715.ga22...@tomgeorge.info>, Thomas H. George wrote:
-- deleted discussion of tabbing --
Being disciplined with tabbing (indentation), spacing (alignment), and
In <4a31939d.4040...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote:
>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 b
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 situatio
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
> >seem
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
set tabstop=3
set shiftwidth=3
--Ben
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:07 PM, 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 sit
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.
Tom
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