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.

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