On 07Aug2015 12:19, Alex Kleider <aklei...@sonic.net> wrote:
On Aug 7, 2015 1:18 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
However, when _editing_ I tell vi that when I press TAB it is to insert enough
SPACE characters to get to the next 4 column position.
How do you do that?
I've got vim set up so a CTRL-T while in insert mode does that (and CTRL-D does
the opposite) but don't know how to make use of the tab key.
^T and ^D have done that since time immemorial in vi, no special setup
required. I pretty much never use ^T but I do use ^D to back out an indent
level.
These are my settings relevant to tabs and indenting:
set autoindent
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=2
set tabstop=4
In order:
autoindent: start the next line's text on the same indent as this one
expandtab: write spaces instead of a TAB character
shiftwidth: how far the < and > shift-text operations move
tabstop: the multiple used to tabstops - every 4 columns for me
Happy to post my other settings should anyone care.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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