Re: About using vartabstop

On Wednesday 29 August 2018 18:47,
Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> put forth the proposition:
> 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

Won't this change *all* tab indents to the same size? Surely you need
to use expandtab?

> 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 think it may need more work than that, but I may be wrong.

You may need to indentexpr to a custom function and use that
to set ind.

See :help indentexpr

-Dave

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> I get the following error messages at bootup, could anyone tell me
> what they mean?
> fcntl_setlk() called by process 51 (lpd) with broken flock() emulation
They mean that you have not read the documentation when upgrading the
kernel.
-- seen on c.o.l.misc

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