Vim Set Tab To 4 Spaces
Shiftwidth determines how many columns text is indented when using reindent operations.
Vim set tab to 4 spaces. Expandtab is what actually uses spaces instead of tabs. You can put these settings in a vimrc or vimrc on windows in your home directory so you only have to type them once. Use the following set of options.
Adjusting indent edit edit source. You run set expandtab tabstop 4. All tab characters are 4 space characters.
The two tabs on screen each become worth 4 columns of whitespace but they don t turn to spaces yet. But this inserts tab. Hit colon again and type set expandtab which will insert spaces for tabs.
You have 8 columns of whitespace. Set shiftwidth 4 for example to get the following coding style no tabs in the source file. Within vim type a colon and then set tabstop 4 which will set the tabs to display as four spaces.
Set tabstop 2 shiftwidth 2 expandtab. So first set the number of spaces a tab should be then set expandtab. Say suppose i copy the code from unix to texpad wordpad textpad will interpret tab as 8 spaces i can set tab space in textpad to 4 spaces but i cant tell everyone who copy my code to text pad to set their tab in textpad.
Tabstop determines how many columns a tab counts for. The file s contents. Set tabstop 4 set shiftwidth 4 set expandtab or as a oneliner.