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Subject: Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim
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Robert Latest wrote:
>
> Thanks folks, I didn't know about Ctrl-D. Of course that's all I'm
> gonna use now, because it is so Vim. One thing that I don't understand
> is that <Tab> indents eight spaces whereas Ctrl-D un-indents only
> four. I'll check on that. Actually I've got ":set sw=4" in my vimrc,
> maybe that has  to do with it.
>

That's because tab indents `tabstop` spaces, and ^D un-indents
`shiftwidth` spaces.

`tabstop` sets what a literal HT (ASCII 0x09 - Horizontal Tab) means
in terms of spaces. This affects what happens what happens when you
press the TAB key and how groups of spaces in files are interpreted if
you have that feature turned on.

`shiftwidth` controls how many spaces VIM considers to be one level of
indentation. This affects the auto-indentation system, ^T and ^D, etc.

If `tabstop` and `shiftwidth` are set to different values, strange
things happen if you use tab to indent.

-- Sam Hanes
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