Re: Unexpected indentation with :left

On 2025-02-26 10:31, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 7:10:46???PM UTC-5 Tim Chase wrote:
>>>  Sets the indent in the lines to [indent] (default 0). 
>> 
>> indenting with N spaces rather than respecting 'shiftwidth' and 'expandtab'
>> [snip]
>> Is there a way to get the indent-count parameter of `:left` to behave 
>> like using the > motion (which respects 'shiftwidth' and 'expandtab')? 
> 
> It took me a while to figure out what the question was, but I think you 
> could something like this:
> 
>     V<motions>:left N | *retab!

The gist of my question/hope was wanting to get the N in

  :left N

to prepend N *indents* (using N tabs if 'noet' and N*shiftwidth if 'et'
is set)

As it currently stands, with 'et' set, I get N spaces, not N
'shiftwidth', and if I have 'noet' set, I get int(N/tabstop) tabs
followed by mod(N, tabstop) spaces.  E.g.

  :set ts=8 sw=4

with

  :set et
  :'<,'>left 10

puts 10 spaces at the beginning of each trimmed line.

And without 'et' set:

  :set noet
  :'<,'>left 10

gives me one tab (8-worth) followed by 2 spaces.

Neither gives me 10 tabstops or 10 shiftwidths which is what I'd
expected.

-tim





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