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

Thanks Oliver!  I'm gonna try this in my .vimrc file.

This Saturday morning I'm giving myself a break from my Java class to
attend a Chicago Ruby conference where the topics include Vim versus Atom (
never heard of Atom before, but it should be interesting ) and I want to
ask some questions about catching errors in user-entered input.  It's also
a great way to meet people, interact, make friends ( and probably make
enemies too!  Oh well.... )  I think that's really important.  The path of
the computer programmer/scientist/hacker/etc can be a lonely path at times,
and I think it's very beneficial to study and learn with friends, peers,
co-workers, classmates, etc, etc.  I have found on MANY occasions a
classmate will explain something to me much better than the professor can.
Although to be fair I have encountered some really wonderful professors.  I
wish we had more of them.  My Java prof this semester actually said on the
first day of class, "I want you all to know that I don't care about you!
I'm just here to make more money for my pension!"  Well sure, we all want
$$$$, but I can't imagine this guy's rudeness to actually announce that on
the first day of class!  But I guess I should give him kudos for his being
extremely honest--although rather blunt and obnoxious about it.  Anyhow,
back to editors.  So I told this guy that I'm not really into Eclipse that
much.  Eclipse is okay, but I think it fosters some laziness in Java
programmers.  I prefer Vim because then I am forced to really memorize
stuff and really know what I'm doing.  So I asked him, "Can I use Vim
instead of Eclipse?"  He said, "Not a problem.  Use whichever IDE you want
to!"  Well.... guess what?  On the midterm he actually asked some dumb
question about file preferences in Eclipse!!!!  Geesh!!!!  I almost blew a
gasket, but hey, I got a B on the midterm, so I guess I can't complain that
much.  But still.... why do these professors deliberately misdirect
students in this way?  I just don't get it.  There are professors who
really love to teach.... and then there are professors who want you to step
on sharp nails before you get your degree.  I just don't get it.  Oh well.


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Oliver Bandel [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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
>
> 
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