In my .vimrc file, i wrote down set tabstop=4 in order to have a tab equal to 4 spaces, but when I use tab in a C file, only one space is written. I have to put another tab to write 4 spaces.
How can I solve that ?
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A tabstop doesn't mean that every tab is equivalent to 4 spaces. It means that a tab character will represent 1-4 spaces so that the next character appears in a column that's a multiple of 4.
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Oh okay thanks I get it. But what settings should I put to only type one tab and have 4 spaces ? – zelph14 Aug 25 '21 at 13:36
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1@zelph14 https://stackoverflow.com/q/68900259/7976758 – phd Aug 25 '21 at 13:40
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@phd unfortunately I still have to type twice on tab with this – zelph14 Aug 25 '21 at 13:45
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It sounds like you don't want tab stops: you want to remap the tab key to enter 4 spaces instead. – chepner Aug 25 '21 at 13:52
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I've not tested this. Put in your .vimrc `set ts=4 sw=4` source: https://superuser.com/questions/505937/how-to-set-tab-to-4-spaces-in-vim/505948 – zundarz Aug 26 '21 at 12:07
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Is there more information available on this @chepner ? – user129393192 Jul 30 '23 at 20:31
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Here's what I have in my .vimrc file: When in insert mode, I press tab and four spaces appear in my file.
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
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