Re: How to make pressing TAB key enter a single TAB character in a .py file?

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 5:36:44 PM UTC-5, ZyX wrote:
> 2015-08-16 1:27 GMT+03:00 Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following modline in a .py file. When I type TAB, two TAB
> > characters are entered into the file. How only let one TAB characters
> > entered? Thanks.
> >
> > # vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2:

It seems that shiftwidth is not the problem, as I tried the following modline yet a TAB key still is two TAB characters. Could you try it and let me know what is the correct modline? Thanks.

# vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2:

> Default shiftwidth for Python files is 4 (which is &tabstop * 2 with
> your settings, so two tabs). You need to set &shiftwidth option as
> well.
>
> >
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> > Regards,
> > Peng
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