My issue with tabbing is that since actual source coding starts in
card column 12 and tabs generally occur every 4 columns there after
(16, 20, 24, 28, etc.).  The problem is that, since the cursor starts
in column 1 instead of column 0 and assuming a tab width of 4 columns,
pressing the tab key advances the cursor from column 1 to column 5, 9,
13, 17, 21, 25, etc.

This tabbing behavior causes me to tab “almost” to where I need to be
then add sufficient individual spaces to get to where I need to be.
Backspacing causes a similar action to be used namely backspacing
(which moves back an amount equivalent to a tab width) then once again
adding sufficient individual spaces to get to where I need to be.  It
would seem that if the tab action was 0-relative instead of 1 the
tabbing activity would result in cursor arriving at the desired column
without additional space characters.

Question 1:
How do I change the cobol.vim file to start tabbing from a 0-relative
position instead  of the current 1-relative location?

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