in setting softtabstop to 4, things are fine, unless and until I want to start entering actual tab characters in a module which gets parsed using tabs as delimiters -- my thought was that by setting noexpandtab any time I hit the tab key in insert mode, a tab would be inserted
that is not what happens with softtabstop set to 4 and set noexpandtab, in insert mode on a new line, when I enter a single character followed by a tab, 3 spaces are inserted to repeat, even though I have set noexpandtab, 3 spaces are inserted when I hit the tab key I find this unexpected -- history dictates when I am having unexpected results it is because I don't fully understand what I am doing, so please, ppl, educate me -- why are spaces inserted with noexpandtab set? do I have to set softtabstop to zero whenever I want noexpandtab? would not the expected behavior be to honor noexpandtab? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
