On Sa, 23 Jun 2018, tooth pik wrote:
> 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 Have you tried :set varsofttabsstop? Best, Christian -- Das Leben ist wie eine Hühnerleiter: Mal rauf mal runter. -- -- 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.
