[NCLUG] Looking at programming languages...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:47:00PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
>I'm aware of <Ctrl><v>+<Tab> -- but what I'm hoping for is a method for
>using tabs without having spaces automatically turned into tabs that
>doesn't involve turning one keystroke into three keystrokes.

I really don't have a good feel for where exactly vim is falling down for
you, but it feels like you just need to get more familiar with the various
vim tab-related settings like smarttabs, expandtab, and autocmd.  For
example, when I'm editing text documents I have expandtab enabled, but when
I'm editing makefiles vim automatically detects this and does not expand
tabs into spaces.  So, with these settings vim just works for me...

Thanks,
Sean
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