as would i, but see for yourself i've tried, however hysterically, and failed at every attempt to get useful activity out of them
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:29 PM, Christ van Willegen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have expandtabs set? That would explain this, I think... > > > > Christ van Willegen > > I haven't tried them yet, but I would expect > > :set vartabstop=4,20,10,8 > > to mean that hitting the tab key moves the cursor forward to the first > one encountered among columns 5, 25, 35, 43, 51, 59, 67, 75, …, > filling the intervening columns either with one hard tab (if > 'noexpandtab') or with as many spaces as necessary (if 'expandtab'), > similarly to what happened some 60 or so years ago when I set the tabs > on the backside of the paper carriage guide of my Underwood > typewriter, an old hand-me-down from my grandfather who had got > himself a newer model. (That typewriter looked more or less like the > one at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_ > Museum_of_Indianapolis_-_Typewriter.jpg > and it had adjustable tabs.) > > Best regards, > Tony. > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
