VIM and tab to space migration

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

On 2004-05-05, Alejandro López-Valencia wrote in <c7bh99$239b8$1 at ID-99513.news.uni-berlin.de>:
> On 2004-05-05, Brian Quinlan wrote in <mailman.279.1083781602.25742.python-list at python.org>:
>> Christophe Cavalaria wrote:
>>
>>> Try adding that line at the end of each modified file :
>>> 
>>> # vim:sw=4:softtabstop=4:expandtab
>>> 
>>> It tells vim all the commands it should automatically run when it opens the
>>> file and it should get you the correct behaviour for 4 spaces no tab
>>> indentation.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion but modifying all my files is a pretty ugly 
>> solution. Not that I'm above using it if there is no better way :-)
>

I use these settings myself, but just now after posting, I realized that
it is far better to set the preferences on a per-buffer basis, so I
change my advice to the following:

	$ mkdir -p .vim/ftplugin
 	$ cd .vim/ftplugin
 	$ vim python_pep8.vim
 	....

 $ cat python_pep8.vim
 if exists("b:did_python_pep8")
         finish
 else
         let b:did_python_pep8=1
 endif
 set tabstop=4
 set shiftwidth=4
 set softtabstop=4
 set expandtab
 set textwidth=80

This way, you can open a python file and a file with a different syntax
on two buffers of the same vim session.

And this is *really* all there is to it.

Cheers

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Alejandro López-Valencia
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