On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:40:26PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Tabs should be used for indent and not general alignment. > > Consider: > <tab>if (some long condition that > <tab>....&& spans two lines) { > <tab><tab>my_private_printf("bla bla bla" > <tab><tab>.................."more bla bla\n"); > <tab><tab>} > > This will look good and align "more bla bla\n" as > intended no matter your tab setting. > But replacing the 8 spaces with a tab will > cause it to look bad. I'd so much love to have this and sometimes do this even manually, but does anyone have an idea how to make vim do this for me? I never got around to investigate this in depth or possibly make a patch... -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html