RE: Treat spaces as tabs only at the start of the line

Gerardo Marset wrote:
> I have sofftabstop (and shiftwidth) set to 4, and expandtab
> enabled. Thus, when deleting groups of spaces, vim treats
> them as tabs and deletes them 4 at a time. I want vim to do
> that only if from the start of the line and up to the
> cursor's position there's only spaces and nothing else.

I'm not sure exactly what the issue is, but are you aware that
in insert mode you can press Ctrl-D to unindent the current line
(remove one level of shiftwidth)? Does that help?

I recently cleaned this up, although I don't think it helps
your problem:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Shifting_blocks_visually

John

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