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

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.

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