On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: | > | > > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... | > | > You may also embed commands near the start of your file: | > | > :vi set tabstops=4 showmatch: | | Is there a setting which allows a tab to indent by 4 chars, but leaves | tabstops at 8 chars, where most apps seem to expect to find them?
See my example. The key settings are "softtabstop" and "shiftwidth", which can be abbreviated "sts" and "sw" respectively. | I'm also curious as to the interaction between vim and indent, | particularly the ~/.indent.pro preferences file, in vim's 'cindent' | mode. I've found that with -kr4 set in my indent preferences file, I'm | getting the desired behavior in vim with autoindentation, but I'm not | convinced it's a causal relation. I didn't think vim used any external files to control it's indenting behavior but I could be wrong. Vim's cindent mode is controlled by the 'cinwords' and other variables inside of vim. -D
