Your subject missed a critical word: vim.
It's there!
Run vim. Then ':set' to see what's set different than default. Then, if it is tabstop you want to know about, ':verbose set tabstop?' will tell you where that setting was last altered.
Nothing that seems to point to space indent: background=dark hlsearch ruler smartcase ttyfast wildmenu helplang=C. ignorecase scroll=36 smartindent ttymouse=xterm2 nowrap hidden modified showcmd nostartofline wildcharm=^Z I'll check with a vim specific group. Thanks! Toby -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
