From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T11:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby? [OT] tabs vs. spaces

Quoting mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org, on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:02:39AM +0900:
> * Sam Roberts (Mar 23, 2005 00:50):
> It's very easy to do with vim.  Simply leave your 'ts' alone, set 'sw' to
> 8, don't set 'sts' and don't set 'et'.  Those are all default settings
> by the way.
> 
> GNU indent can be set to use any of a variety of indentation
> "standards".  It can also be configured to your hearts delight.

Yeah, but it conveniently default to GNUs.

> well, I could have spelled them out, but that wouldn't have changed
> much ;-).  (The full command is
>   :set tabstop& shiftwidth& softtabstop& expandtab&
> 
> Hm, well, true, leave smarttab at its default setting (of off) as well,
>         nikolai (the ???who the hell messes with the smarttab
>                  setting????-kinda guy)

I longer have the need to use this style and am quite happy with my
settings, but none of the approaches above gave me any indentation at
all, sorry. Or was I supposed to manually press TAB every time I wanted
an indent? When I selected and did =, it indented like:

void foo(void)
{
        int i;
        if(1)
        {
        }
^^^^^^^^ this is a TAB.

I use vim 6.3, and ran with vim -u /dev/null to take my settings out of
it.

Cheers,
Sam