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Right now, my VIM editor tab indent has some unusual behaviour.
When I am in insert mode and press tab, the cursor indents about 3 spaces instead of a whole tab indent. I like this.
When I high-light a block of text, then press SHIFT and > simultaneously, the block of text indents an entire tab indent instead of 3 spaces behaviour like above. I do not like this.
How do I make the second action behave like the first action?
Myself, I use:
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set smarttab
This replaces tabs with spaces (expandtab), sets both the Tab and > to 4 spaces (shiftwidth). The smarttab settings allows for proper handling of Tab and Backspace based on the shiftwidth value. You can set shiftwidth to whatever you like.
:set tabstop=3 shiftwidth=3with an optionalexpandtabornoexpandtab.shiftwidthmust be the same astabstopor someone will be cursing your indents. – hhaamu Feb 13 '12 at 18:08