Hello Adrian,

Adrian Keister schrieb am 20.05.2019 um 18:22:
> On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 2:15:08 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Adrian Keister schrieb am 17.05.2019 um 19:19:
>>> I'm having difficulty with vim on Mac OS. It's indenting incorrectly. The 
>>> attached txt file is the test file, and the two screenshots show how 
>>> different they look on Mac versus Windows. The Windows gVim is the look I 
>>> want. I've tried everything from brew install vim to re-installing MacVim, 
>>> no joy. It does not appear to be a vimrc issue, because I've tried the 
>>> troubleshotting page here, with no joy:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/wiki/Troubleshooting
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Thanks for your time!
>>
>> your file contains tabs at the start of lines 5 to 9. On Windows the 
>> 'tabstop'
>> option is probably set to 4, while on Mac it seems to be 8 (the default).
> 
> Jürgen,
> 
> That could be it, but then I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Why can't I navigate to the very beginning of the line where the indenting 
> is different? This is behavior on the Mac, to be clear, not on Windows. 

you have tabs at the start of line. Normally when on a tab the cursor is
put at the end of the tab. You can change this with the 'virtualedit'
option. Set it to 'all' and you can move through a tab cell by cell.

> 2. Why doesn't adding 
> set tabstop=4
> in my Mac's vimrc fix the problem?

Maybe that option has been changed by a (filetype) plugin. If you
execute

  :verbose set tabstop?

Vim will tell you where that option was changed last.

Regards,
Jürgen

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