John Beckett wrote:
> Jasper wrote:
>   
>> I recently switched to a new computer using Vista, on which I
>> installed Vim 7.2.  I brought over my vim files, but now I'm
>> finding that expandtab inadvertently gets reset from time to
>> time.  I'm writing Python code, so this is quite annoying...
>>
>> In my _vimrc I have (amongst other things):
>> set expandtab
>>
>> and later:
>> autocmd FileType python set sw=4 ts=4 expandtab
>>     
>
> Use this command to see what is setting the option:
>
> :verbose set expandtab?
>
> The correct procedure is to leave expandtab at its default (on)
> and put what you need for Python in an 'after' directory. See:
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indenting_source_code
>
> John
>
>   

Aha!  Thanks, that's much more robust. :-)

-Jasper



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