On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:49:46PM -0500, Lloyd Sartor wrote: >"William O'Higgins Witteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/23/2006 >12:49:02 PM: > >> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:58:47PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >> >William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: >> >>When coding in Python, I have a little mapping which helps me create >> >>function declarations (and something similar for class definitions >too). >> >>It looks like this: >> >> >> >>inoremap def def ():<cr><tab>""""""<up><left><left><left> >> >> >> >>On Linux, it works perfectly - my ts = 2, and I get this when I type >> >>"def ": >> >> >> >>def |(): >> >> """""" >> >> >> >>Where the pipe character is the cursor. >> >> >> >>However, with Windows, and a nearly identical _vimrc, when I use the >> >>above mapping I get 4 spaces (expandtab is set) before the quotation >> >>marks, instead of two. Typing a tab still moves me two spaces, so >ts=2 >> >>is still set, but I'm getting too big a tab in this mapping. All of >the >> >>places where I declare a <tab> generate the same behavior. >> yours, > >Check the setting of softtabstop. With ts=2 and sts=4, vim tabbed to the >next column that is a multiple of 4, not 2.
Okay, I think that this is solved, but I'm not sure why. It seems to be a combination of the softtabstop and the filetype indent settings. If I set "filetype indent off" and "set sts=2" in my _vimrc, I get the behaviour I am looking for. Thanks to Llyod and Tony - hopefully this helps someone else one day. -- yours, William
