On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I > invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I > get rid of that behaviour?
I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded and annoying as all hell. > 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the global syntax directory. > 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was > mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do > I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is > there some other key that is used for that purpose? Here's from my .vimrc set tabstop=2 set expandtab expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------