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

2015-08-16 16:23 GMT+03:00 Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>:
>
> Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> You probably have 'softtabstop' set to the wrong value.
>
> Note that most people recommend using a tabstop of 8 in Python files, or
> no tabs at all. Doing otherwise is likely to get you in trouble some
> day.

I used &tabstop=4 in powerline with noexpandtab for years. No
troubles. Just don't try to mix tabs and spaces, in case you do note
that Python thinks that 1 tab is 8 spaces. If all indentation is
consistent there will be no troubles.

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