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

On Sunday, July 1, 2012 8:34:36 AM UTC-3, JohnBeckett wrote:
> 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

No, that doesn't help. Thanks anyway.

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