Reply to message «a question about softtabstop», sent 17:12:58 31 October 2010, Sunday by itx:
> but i found that when i type a TAB after a non-blank character it > didn't insert softtabstop spaces > > for example > > 1. i\t > 2. in\t > 3. \t > > the end colum of these three lines are just the same ,why? `softabstop' is ``pretend to insert a tab, but really insert spaces'' that is ``fill line with spaces till next virtual column that has 0 as a remainder in division by a value of tabstop''. So, it does not insert a four spaces, it inserts a spaces till fourth column. Original message: > I am using gvim 7.2 > > my vimrc settings > > set tabstop=8 > set softtabstop=4 > set noexpandtab > > but i found that when i type a TAB after a non-blank character it > didn't insert softtabstop spaces > > for example > > 1. i\t > 2. in\t > 3. \t > > the end colum of these three lines are just the same ,why?
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