On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:04:49 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: > I know we want to avoid option bloat, but I really hate "special" > values, especially ones as non-obvious as these. > > How about instead a new boolean option, 'tabbind'? When off, > 'shiftwidth', 'tabstop' and 'softtabstop' are all independent. When > on, all those values are set to that of the last one set. >
I think having too many options is better than having too few with special overloaded behaviors. That is just my preference though. > For example, if 'tabbind' is on when the user sets 'tabstop', both > 'shiftwidth' and 'softtabstop' are also set to the new value of > 'tabstop'. The user doesn't have to remember what "-1" means or > which option needs to be set last to affect the others. > I like this idea very much. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
