Questions tagged [tab-characters]
Question about how to handle white spaces tab characters with vim, insert them, remove them, convert them to space characters, etc...
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Is it possible to override vim's indentation to only count tabs?
I use Tabular to emulate elastic tabs (https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/), so I have a keybinding to align all elastic tabs, which are marked as <Space><Tab>. In most cases, I ...
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Why is Vim ignoring my `expandtab` setting?
In my vimrc, I have set expandtab. When I edit a Tex file, however, Vim inserts tab characters , instead of spaces , when I press tab. I figured noexpandtab must be set by the TeX ftplugin for some ...
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change behaviour of > / < and >> / << to insert / remove only leading tabs
i want > / < and >> / << to simply insert and remove tab characters at the beginning of the line. variant: i would even prefer to have> / < and >>/ << insert / ...
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Manually indenting lines with tabs
Lines can be indented with tab characters. And it is quite obvious the there are better ways to do that than manually adding a tab character to the beginning of each line. But how to discover these ...
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Expand all non-leading tabs but keep leading tabs [duplicate]
I want to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment in the following way: keep tab characters (like noexpandtab) for all leading tabs of a file, but expand tabs (like expandtab) that occur ...
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What is the setting for the strict tab adherence when running vim with no configuration?
When I run vim with no configuration (--clean), in a bash file I cannot move the cursor before any indented tabs. I remember being annoyed by this before I regularly used vim, but early on as I grew ...
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How to get the right indent size in python lists?
In my vimrc I have filetype indent plugin on When I write python code, the indentation mostly looks good, but in lists it is too big: def fun(): return 'indent looks good' my_list = [ '...
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How can i get visualize line indent every time i use tab or go to new line
I set set listchars=tab:\│\ set list to my vimrc and it shows like below But when I go to another file it doesn't have a vertical line indent. It just affected 1 file, I have no idea about this. ...
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Can't enter a tab character when previous character is not a tab or space in insert mode
When pressing tab in any language in edit mode, nothing happens if the character before the cursor is not a space or a tab. Doing ctrl-v tab works, but I don't want to have to do that every time and ...
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How to convert spaces on a line to tabs?
I know there's a way because it happened by accident. I was frenetically moving in a short region of text and at some point, with some wrong keystroke, the leading spaces on the line became a tab (and ...
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Stop vim from deleting expanded tab as a block of spaces
I am on CentOS 8.1 and using vim 8.0.1763. When I open a python file, e.g. vim tmp.py, I type tab and it inserts 4 spaces (see .vimrc below). When I type delete, it deletes all 4 spaces. I want it ...
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Why can't save file without tab key?
Configuration in my .vimrc: set tabstop=4 set expandtab set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 I have edit a file which contain tab,saved and reopen to have a look at it with set list,the tab key saved,...
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Shouldn't `softtabstop` be set, when using option 2 in `:h tabstop` to configure Vim to use spaces for `<Tab>`s?
I want to configure Vim to use spaces for <Tab>s everywhere. Therefore, I've had a look at :h tabstop to figure out how to perform the configuration. Looking at the help text, option 2. seems ...
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Neovim keeps reverting shiftwidth size after `after/ftplugin`
I like to code with 4 spaces as a tab. I added this to after/ftplugin/sass.vim: echom "before sass file settings" set shiftwidth=4 " <---- Problem setting, keeps changing back to 2 ...
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Fixing tab and space inconsistency
I used < in visual model to do a shift+tab reverse for a code inside loop after I removed the try/except phrase. Now, I get an error: $ python clean_captions.py File "clean_captions.py"...
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