Re: conflagration between expantab and softtabstop

On 01.11.15 21:03, toothpik wrote: > with softtabstop set to 4 and set noexpandtab, in insert mode on a new > line, when I enter a single character followed by a tab, 3 spaces are > inserted Not able to replicate that here, with Vim 7.4 (1-688). With tabstop=3 and noexpandtab, tabs of that size

RE: conflagration between expantab and softtabstop

toothpik wrote: > I find this unexpected -- history dictates when I am having unexpected > results it is because I don't fully understand what I am doing, so please, > ppl, educate me -- why are spaces inserted with noexpandtab set? The info here might help:

Re: conflagration between expantab and softtabstop

2015-11-02 6:03 GMT+03:00 toothpik : > in setting softtabstop to 4, things are fine, unless and until I want to > start entering actual tab characters in a module which gets parsed > using tabs as delimiters -- my thought was that by setting noexpandtab > any time I hit the