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

On 2015年08月16日 16時54分, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
>2015-08-16 16:23 GMT+03:00 Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>:
>> 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.

I concur. Mixing tabs and spaces is what gets people into trouble, not the number of space characters a tab represents. With regards to Python, I keep the following in $HOME/.vim/after/ftplugin/python.vim:

setlocal noexpandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=0 tabstop=4

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