Re: Tabs vs Spaces (was Possible bug?)

For you vi folks put this in your .vimrc:

autocmd BufEnter *.py set tabstop=4 expandtab softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 autoindent

which will use four spaces for tabs (for .py files only) and then you
can run the command ":%retab" which will replace all <Tabs> with the
value of tabstop (4 spaces in the above example).

Christoph is right though... patches would be a nightmare if everybody
is not coding to the same standard.

-Seth 

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>>> <[email protected]> 03/16/07 5:34 PM >>>
What if you stayed with tabs and then added a converter, so that you can quickly convert the tabs to the number of spaces that you want?  In fact, this might be a good idea for a lot of free source Python projects distributed on the web -- though I would suspect it would be better to use tabs as the default and offer the ability to convert to space because sometimes it's possible it might not look quite right converting a project coded for spaces to tabs.



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