Re: Tabstop for python on mac for vim 7.4 messed up

On Monday, June 30, 2014 7:40:52 PM UTC-4, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Monday, June 30, 2014 4:18:09 PM UTC-5, Sid wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using vim 7.4 on the Mac. In my .vimrc, I set the tabstop to 4. However if I have the line "filetype plugin on" (which I really need), then the tabstop for python (but not for c++, java, c, julia) is being set to 8. This is happening both with MacVim as well as the brew install version.
> >
> > This does not happen with Vim 7.3, neither for the OSX default nor for MacVim.
> >
> > Help would be greatly appreciated!
> > Thanks!
>
> Probably the python filetype plugin is setting a tabstop for you, which as Gary says I think is intentional. The filetype plugin says:
>
> " As suggested by PEP8.
> setlocal expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=8
>
> If you don't like that, then set up a FileType autocmd to fix it:
>
> autocmd FileType python setlocal tabstop=8

I tried that, both in .vimrc and in ftplugin/python.vim but it didn't work. Any ideas on why? Also how come this is happening in vim 7.4 but not 7.3?

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