Michael Turley wrote:
> Silly one this - my .exrc fie comprises of one line
> which set tabstop=2 (I like smaller tab indents).
> Works lovely except that some windows based developers
> here are having issues with my irratic tab spacing
> policy which looks organised in vim but is rendered
> rather haphazardly in windows editors. Has anyone had
> this problem and what can I do to sort it out?
>
Don't leave the hard tabs in, convert to spaces
always (because as you've noticed tabs are non
standard :-)). You can do it globally for "messed up"
files using expand, and also set the vi option
(:help softtab) to do it proactively.
Padraig.
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