Re: Makefile editing slightly broken

On Monday, December 29, 2014 1:32:39 PM UTC-6, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I dunno what happened, I'm still using the same .vimrc I have for years, but lately there's
> a glitch when I'm editing a Unix makefile.
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> When I start to edit the commands for a rule, it uses spaces instead of a tab to position
> the command.  For makefiles, of course, this is wrong.  Vim even knows this, and highlights
> the line in red. 
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> If I add lines after existing commands it gets the indentation right, perhaps because it copies the indentation of the previous line.
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> What should I look for?  What should I fix?
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Probably your 'expandtab' option has been set somewhere. You can figure out where using the command ":verbose set expandtab?"

Probably, you will need to fix this by creating or adding to an ftplugin file for makefiles, or use a Filetype autocmd event. Either way you'll want to "setlocal noexpandtab" for the makefile filetype.

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