On Mon, 8 May 2006 17:30:08 -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote > I'm trying to get four spaces when I hit the tab key for python code. > > In my _vimrc, I have: > > set expandtab > set tabstop=4 > set softtabstop=4 > > This doesn't seem to work though. I get 8 spaces instead. > > Interestingly, when I have an existing python file with tab > indentation and run the 'retab' command, I get tabs replaced by 4 spaces.
Sorry to respond to my own email, but I found a different way of doing this in the tips section of vim.org that works fine on vim 7: set et set sw=4 set smarttab Stephen
