On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:23:49 -0400, "Gene Kwiecinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>i know with >> i can move a selection to the right by one > >>indent, how can i move a selection just one space ? > > >Well, if you want to move by "one indent", you can > > :set sw=1 ts=1 et > >which will then make ">>" and "<<" indent by one space (not one > >tab) or, you can > > I might've just forgotten to set sw=2, but I noticed that when I was > editing a file and didn't want nested tabs being tabbed over to pretty > much the right side of the screen, one little '>>' would tab it over 4 > tabs (for ts=2) instead of just 1. Thought that was odd. You must have had shiftwidth at its default of 8. The indent used by << and >> is affected only by the setting of shiftwidth and doesn't depend on the tabstop in any way. (The TYPE of whitespace added by >> depends on the tabstop option, but the amount of indentation isn't affected by it.) -- Matthew Winn
