On Wed, October 17, 2012 02:04, 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. > > 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 tend to not agree. I don't like having yet another option plus once we have this option, someone wants this to be local to buffer or someone want to have 'sw' follow 'ts' but not 'sts'. I think it is easier, if we just document the special behaviour of using 0 or -1 or whatever value we agree about. Users that care to customize, can read about the special values in the documentation, which they have to do anyhow. If they don't care, they use whatever their disro or filetype plugin provides and then it is no problem, that the values are not obvious. regards, Christian -- 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
