On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Matimus wrote: > > That isn't the standard. With that setup tabs will show up as 4 > > spaces, and still confuse you. > > Why should that be confusing? The most common tab-stop setting is 4 columns.
I think if you continued reading my post you would see. The tabstop feature in Vi(m) sets how many spaces a tab character is displayed as. A tab character is specified as 8 spaces. The real problem is that the python interpreter itself follows the spec and interprets a tab as 8 spaces. If you are viewing the code and have mixed tabs and spaces and all of the tabs are showing up as 4 spaces you will not be able to spot the issues that will come up. 4 columns is not the most common setting, the most common setting is the default, which is 8. It is just very common for people to change it. I suggest that instead of changing the tabstop, just use spaces (not both) and use the `softtabstop` setting to allow a press of the tab key to insert four spaces instead. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
