On 2025-02-26 10:31, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 7:10:46???PM UTC-5 Tim Chase wrote: >>> Sets the indent in the lines to [indent] (default 0). >> >> indenting with N spaces rather than respecting 'shiftwidth' and 'expandtab' >> [snip] >> Is there a way to get the indent-count parameter of `:left` to behave >> like using the > motion (which respects 'shiftwidth' and 'expandtab')? > > It took me a while to figure out what the question was, but I think you > could something like this: > > V<motions>:left N | *retab!
The gist of my question/hope was wanting to get the N in :left N to prepend N *indents* (using N tabs if 'noet' and N*shiftwidth if 'et' is set) As it currently stands, with 'et' set, I get N spaces, not N 'shiftwidth', and if I have 'noet' set, I get int(N/tabstop) tabs followed by mod(N, tabstop) spaces. E.g. :set ts=8 sw=4 with :set et :'<,'>left 10 puts 10 spaces at the beginning of each trimmed line. And without 'et' set: :set noet :'<,'>left 10 gives me one tab (8-worth) followed by 2 spaces. Neither gives me 10 tabstops or 10 shiftwidths which is what I'd expected. -tim -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/Z7-1hYLwzJ6SYKmO%40thechases.com.
