Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> I was hesitating where to post this message to: editors.vim or
> editor.vim.devel, since I'm not sure if it's bug or I'm just missing
> something. Finally I decided to treat this as a bug.
>
> Problem: I can't get copyindent/preserveindent options working.
>
> The scenario to reproduce:
>
> $ gvim -u NONE -U NONE --noplugin
>
> Then, go to insert mode (i), type a Tab (C-V, C-I), type hello. Go
> back to normal mode.
> Do: set preserveindent copyindent autoindent expandtab
> Go to insert mode again and add a new line after the existing one.
>
> The new line will be indented with spaces, while it is expected that
> the tab from the previous line will be copied.
>
> P.S. It's a Windows x86 box, VIM 7.0.195
Apparently when you have 'expandtab' set then the copied tab is expanded
into spaces. I suppose you have set this combination of option values
to be able to have tabs copied and only when you press <Tab> to add spaces.
Let's call this a bug.
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