Friday, September 9, 2011

Re: autoindent: getting spaces and no tabs

On 09/09/11 13:45, John Goche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I like the autoindent feature which works when I code in javascript.
> However I don't want any tabs in there, I just want spaces.

I'd check your 'expandtab' setting:

:set et?

To get the behavior you want, it should be set to 'expandtab'
instead of 'noexpandtab'.

:help 'et'

If you want it across the board, you can put the following line
in your vimrc:

set et

To control the number of spaces expanded, twiddle the
'shiftwidth' and 'tabstop' settings to your preferred number of
spaces-per-tab.

-tim


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