On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Di, 07 Okt 2014, Martin Tournoij wrote: > > > I think there is a difference; ftplugin files almost always sets useful, > > filetype-specific stuff. > > > > A quick grep on setlocal shows that it usually just sets comments, foldexpr, > > formatoptions, etc. These things are what almost everyone wants, regardless > > of > > personal preferences (I *want* those settings). > > This is not the case for expandtab & tabstop. These are "personal" > > settings, and, IMHO, different from almost all other stuff set in ftplugin > > files. > > At least for python, it provides defaults for being PEP8 compliant. (see > issue https://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=98)
It's more serious than that: indentation is significant in Python, and
Python always treats a tab character as 8 spaces.
If you mix tabs and spaces, and your editor shows the tabs differently
from 8 spaces, you'll end up seeing the wrong block structure. Have fun
debugging!
Marius Gedminas
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