[OT]: vim tabs/spaces (Re: pattern matching)

Zitat von "Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]"  
<[email protected]> (Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:28:26 -0500)

[...]
> But I must confess that I don't really use Emacs that much anymore.  I've
> become more of a Vim guy.  The reason is simple.  I've noticed that Vim has
> way more online resources and online support than Emacs.  There is online
> help for Emacs too, but.... it just seems like I need a PhD. in CS or
> Physics from MIT in order to utilize those resources.  The Vim tutorials
> are a little more "down to earth" for the "average" programmer.  ( I kind
> of hate that word "average", but you know what I mean. )  I've also found
> that when I write a file in Vim, it looks really weird when I open it up in
> Emacs.  All the tabs and indentations are way too big!  I think in my
> .vimrc file I specified a tab of 4 spaces, but when I open the file in
> Emacs I end up with one tab being equal to like 8 spaces or something like
> that.  Very annoying.
[...]

This looks like you just use TAB-spaces and have changed vim's settings
in a way that you display a TAB as 4 spaces, but did not expanded the TAB
to four spaces.
So, when emacs shows TAB as eight spaces, you could change the  
display-settings in emacs too.
Or if you want to automatically replace TAB by spaces, you need to use  
"expandtab" in vim.


You could use (for your .vimrc-file):

set expandtab
set sw=4
set tabstop=4

Then TAB will be replaced by four spaces.

(When editing Makefile's, you need to use ":set noexpandtab" to switch  
off the replacement
  of TAB with spaces.)

Ciao,
    Oliver