On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:29 PM, Christ van Willegen
<cvwille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have expandtabs set? That would explain this, I think...
>
> Christ van Willegen
I haven't tried them yet, but I would expect
:set vartabstop=4,20,10,8
to mean that hitting the tab key moves the cursor forward to the first
one encountered among columns 5, 25, 35, 43, 51, 59, 67, 75, …,
filling the intervening columns either with one hard tab (if
'noexpandtab') or with as many spaces as necessary (if 'expandtab'),
similarly to what happened some 60 or so years ago when I set the tabs
on the backside of the paper carriage guide of my Underwood
typewriter, an old hand-me-down from my grandfather who had got
himself a newer model. (That typewriter looked more or less like the
one at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis_-_Typewriter.jpg
and it had adjustable tabs.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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