On 10/16/07, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Hello
I use both vim and emacs so I must be weird.
Anyways, here's some useful vim settings that I've come across:
set tabstop=8
set softtabstop=8
set shiftwidth=8
set noexpandtab
set list
set listchars=<tab>:.\
The last two are extremely useful, especially if you're hacking on
python. That's
listchars=(less-than)tab(greater-than)(colon)(dot)(backslash)(space)
(don't forget the space!).
That makes vim display tabs with a "." indicator, so you have a very
clear view of when tabs are in use. This has helped me countless
times.
You can use any character in there instead of dot. I actually use an
extended ascii character since it looks nicer but I didn't want to
risk email mangling it.
--
David
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