Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops are by default 8 spaces.
What is the best way to deal with this? What I have currently in my /etc/vimrc is the following: """""""""""""""""""" C programming stuff """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" syntax on "syntax highlighting "set tabstop=4 (default is 8) set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set pastetoggle=<F4> So you can see that I have commented out the previous tabstop setting of 4 so that the default is now active, but have added the softtabstop=4 option and left shiftwidth=4. I think that this adds 4 spaces when you press tab. And if an automatic indentation occurs (while writing c source code), it will add 4 spaces if the indentation is less than 8 spaces from the side or a combination of tabs and spaces if the indentation is more than 8 spaces from the side. Is this correct? If not how do you do it properly? How do all you guys do it? Basically, I just want my source code, to look to everyone else, as it looks to me, when they edit it, or I print it out. But I want to be able to use more of the screen by using tabspaces of 4. Thanks for the help. Regards. Mark.
