> Well, you already understand the essential: Use tabs as much as > possible, use spaces to put it in the right place.
It does not look like this. Almost everywhere indentation is described as “indent by 4 spaces, replace each 8 spaces with a tab”. This is not “use tabs as much as possible”. Alignment (not indentation!) is though “use tabs as much as possible”. I saw such strange style only in xterm and zsh sources other then vim ones and guess it was inherited from somewhere where it probably made sense (e.g. it was used for saving the screen width in case there is no way to configure tab length and for reducing file size at a time). > The default options for 'cindent' and the modeline in the file are > obviously the way to go. > > There are plenty of examples, most people pick it up easily. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
