On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 4:32 PM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 4:04 PM Christopher Plewright > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thanks @k-takata >> >> this is great help for me learning how it should be. >> >> quick question, are tabs normally viewed as 4 spaces or 8 spaces. I think >> that caused me some confusion too. Is it OK, if I change most of the tabs to >> actual spaces in this file os_win32.c? I think that will help prevent that >> sort of confusion in the future. >> >> > > The Vim source code uses a mix of spaces and tabs. The following settings are > used: > > set softtabstop=4 > set shiftwidth=4 > set tabstop=8 > set noexpandtab >
A mix of space characters and tabs are used to minimize the number of characters used for indentation. - Yegappan -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAAW7x7kGFqvkW-SkaSBNOeZPMDf%3DKGm8D9_-warUzRcFiNsgow%40mail.gmail.com.
