From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T09:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby? [OT] tabs vs. spaces

* Sascha Ebach (Mar 23, 2005 01:30):
> Nice to have so many experts here :) I have actually been fighting 
> around with this issue. I have found that using tabs always gives me 
> headaches somewhere. For example when I paste code examples into emails.

> What do I have to set in vim if I always want two spaces (also when I 
> press the tab key)? No exceptions. I essentially want this:
> 
> class PageController
>   def edit
>     case  @request.method
>       when  :get
>         @page  =  Page.find(@params['id'])
>       when  :post
>     ...
>   end
> end

What?  You want tab to equal two spaces, regardless of column?  Then,

  :imap <Tab> <Space><Space>

is what you want, but, again, are you sure that's what you want?,
        nikolai

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