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• Easy (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  :help 'backspace [sourceforge.net]
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    I already have :set backspace=indent,eol,start. That's still not everything I want. Backspace does back up past autoindent, which is okay, but that's not the only thing I want. I want Vim to treat tabs as four spaces when it saves the file, but as single characters when I move around in or edit the file.

    Did I read the help text incorrectly?
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Ah, OK. There’s no builtin way of doing that to my knowledge. I could swear I saw a way to do this with scripting in either the scripts or tips section of vim.org [vim.org], but I can’t unearth it now.
      • # vim: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 noet: (Score:1)

        by mr_bean (3802)

        There is some info at :h 'ts' that explains it.
        • Re:# vim: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 noet: (Score:1)

          by fishbot (5470) on 2006.12.03 11:25 (#52070)

          As far as I can tell, the magic here is

          'softtabstop' 'sts'

          I have expandtab set, and shiftwidth, tabstop et al. are all set to four. Leaving all that constant, and setting sts=4, vim will now backspace over tabs. It won't treat tabs as single chars for x, but you can always I<BS> if you are in a leading tab-grouping and want to delete one tab. Of course, at that point you might as well <<

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