Peng Yu wrote:

> On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 5:36:44 PM UTC-5, ZyX wrote:
> > 2015-08-16 1:27 GMT+03:00 Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have the following modline in a .py file. When I type TAB, two TAB
> > > characters are entered into the file. How only let one TAB characters
> > > entered? Thanks.
> > >
> > > # vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2:
> 
> It seems that shiftwidth is not the problem, as I tried the following modline 
> yet a TAB key still is two TAB characters. Could you try it and let me know 
> what is the correct modline? Thanks.
> 
> # vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2:

You probably have 'softtabstop' set to the wrong value.

Note that most people recommend using a tabstop of 8 in Python files, or
no tabs at all.  Doing otherwise is likely to get you in trouble some
day.

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