i did pop the champagne when vartabs were announced, but find my excitement
dampened when i try them out -- they are not column-centric, like tabs on
the typewriters of yore, but something else entirely
indeed, when i turn on expandtabs, as i like to do, with
set vartabs=4,20,10,8
as the help implies, it interprets each tab as the first, because expandtab
has expanded the last one into spaces making each subsequent tab into the
first, so it just keeps adding 4 spaces
the meaning of vartabs, to me, are tabs that i can define like column
numbers -- as anyone old enough to have used an actual typewriter knows,
and might be coerced into describing if plyed with gin
first i define a set of tabs
then i start typing -- any time i hit the tab key spaces are inserted up to
the next defined tab key -- if i type past the first three tabstops and hit
the tab key it will insert spaces to make the line as long as defined by
the 4th tabstop position
this would be useful for cobol and other programmers for whom column
numbers are so significant, not just ingrates like me who want them to
align columns in his Plan
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