On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 21:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the > > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I > > invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I > > get rid of that behaviour? > > I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded > and annoying as all hell.
Just figured it out: the culprit is the ruler option. Turn it off and the evil goes away...Bummer, really, as the ruler is slightly useful... > > > 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? > > Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the > global syntax directory. OK, I feel a bit dumb, but how do I do that? > > > 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was > > mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do > > I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is > > there some other key that is used for that purpose? > > Here's from my .vimrc > > set tabstop=2 > set expandtab > > expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces. Great! Just what I was looking for... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | PGP key available on request <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ----------------------------------------------------------------------