On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Leave it out. Letting vim read settings from files of unknown source is a > > security risk, so it is disabled by default, and we should not encourage > > people to switch this on. I guess it is similar with emacs. > > I cannot resist to point out that you would not have these problems with the > > indentation scheme that André and I want ;-) > > I solved the issue using the following line > > au BufRead *.py set et ts=4 sw=4 > > in ~/.vimrc :)
The point is this forces everybody to use (physically _and_ visibly) 4 spaces for indentation, whereas the 'LyX scheme' only forces a physical indentation of 1 tab, and visible appearance could be anything, so a wide range of tastes can be satisfied. Andre'