[Tutor] Re: tabs or spaces (the endless debate!)
Paul Tremblay
phthenry@earthlink.net
Sat Feb 15 19:21:01 2003
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:25:22PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
[snip]
>
> Guido did :
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
>
> Never mix tabs and spaces. The most popular way of indenting
> Python is with spaces only.
This was nice, since I had other questions about naming conventions.
>
> | Also, if I do decide on spaces, how do I make vim automatically insert 5
> | spaces, rather than a tab space of 8. (I know this is really a vim
> | question, but I figure that there are bound to be some vim users who
> | know this question cold.)
>
> All the goodies are here :
> http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/dot-vimrc
>
> In short:
>
> augroup Python
> au!
> au FileType python set sts=5 sw=5 et ts=8 ai si cin tw=78 fo=croq2 hls
>
> au FileType python set comments=b:#
> " override C preprocessor indenting
> au FileType python inoremap # X<C-H>#
> augroup END
>
Ah, nice! Comments and all.
Thanks everyone for your help.
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