Since it does not appear to have "filetype=python" in there, maybe I
should have specified "Run vim with a .py filename".
Yes, that was a bit that took me a while to figure out! So I used
your trick and did:
:verbose set shiftwidth?
and it revealed:
cd /usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin
And in that file I fount the clause:
if !exists("g:python_recommended_style") || g:python_recommended_style != 0
" As suggested by PEP8.
setlocal expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=8
endif
So there it is. I put
let g:python_recommended_style = 0
in my ~/.vimrc and my problem was elegantly solved.
I continued here with the answer so that those that find
my original post by Googling the same question would not
be left hanging.
Tobiah
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