Re: About using vartabstop

On Mi, 29 Aug 2018, Lifepillar wrote:

> There's a meme (if it may be called so) circulating on Twitter
> about using Fibonacci sequences for indentation. Just for fun,
> I wanted to see if it could be implemented using the vartabs
> feature. I thought that this would do it (for C files):
>
> set shiftwidth=0
> set noexpandtab
> set vartabstop=1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34
> set autoindent
> set smartindent
> set ft=c
>
> With the above settings, it appears that the value of tabstop
> is used. This seems to agree with shiftwidth's documentation:
> "When [shiftwidth is] zero the 'ts' value will be used", but
> not with tabstop's help: "the value of 'tabstop' will be
> ignored while 'vartabstop' is set". Putting together the two,
> I would expect the above to use vartabstop.
>
> Am I missing something?

I am not sure. It might be, that the functionality of using the tabstop
setting when shiftwidth is zero is indeed missing from vartabstop,
because this was done some time after the vartab patch has been created
and that feature has than not made it back into the vartabs patch.

I'll have a look at it in more detail later.

Best,
Christian
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