Saturday, September 10, 2011

Re: Smartindent inserting two tabs instead of one

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 13:36:05 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> It seems that the smartindent feature is inserting two tabs in my code
> instead of one tab, each time I change block {} level. What could
> cause that? This is in Kubuntu 11.04, using VIM in Konsole (KDE
> terminal emulator). I recently installed the vim-gnome package to
> enable clipboard support (regular vim in Ubuntu is compiled without
> clipboard support) and I think that this problem started about the
> time that I installed the vim-gnome package. Note that I am still
> using VIM in the terminal editor, not the GUI window.
>
> $ cat .vimrc
> set tabstop=4
> set smartindent
>
> Thanks.

:help shiftwidth

What you need is:
:set shiftwidth=4

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