[Tutor] Pep 8, about indentation

[Cameron Simpson]

On 07Aug2015 12:19, Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:
>On Aug 7, 2015 1:18 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>> However, when _editing_ I tell vi that when I press TAB it is to insert enough
>> SPACE characters to get to the next 4 column position.
>
>How do you do that?
>I've got vim set up so a CTRL-T while in insert mode does that (and CTRL-D does the opposite) but don't know how to make use of the tab key.

^T and ^D have done that since time immemorial in vi, no special setup 
required.  I pretty much never use ^T but I do use ^D to back out an indent 
level.

These are my settings relevant to tabs and indenting:

  set autoindent
  set expandtab
  set shiftwidth=2
  set tabstop=4

In order:

  autoindent: start the next line's text on the same indent as this one

  expandtab: write spaces instead of a TAB character

  shiftwidth: how far the < and > shift-text operations move

  tabstop: the multiple used to tabstops - every 4 columns for me

Happy to post my other settings should anyone care.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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