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In <1992Nov12.000116.23736@kpc.com> hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch) writes:
>    I strongly recommend that you leave tabstops at the default 8 spaces,
>since the convention for printers, tty devices, and just about everything
>else in the world interprets a tab character as 8 spaces.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

>    Instead, change the "shiftwidth" setting in vi to whatever indentation
>level you want (I use 4).  Then you use ^T and ^D in vi to indent and
>unindent, respectively.

>    To do this, you can either include

>        setenv EXRC "set sw=4"

Shouldn't that be EXINIT?

[ For those of use who use the One True Shell, the syntax is
	
	EXINIT="set sw=4"; export EXINIT

and the file is named .profile .]

>or you can create a file called .exrc in your home directory with the line

>        set sw=4


If you insist on using the TAB key to indent, add a line looking somewhat like:

	map! ^V		^T

What you actually type is:

	m a p ! space ctrl-V ctrl-V ctrl-V tab space ctrl-V ctrl-T 

This makes the TAB key behave like ^T in input mode.
Type ctrl-V tab to get a real tab if you need one.

>I recommend the .exrc file, because it's much easier to add macros and other
>settings to this file.

Agreed.

>vi will use this file unless there's a .exrc file in the current directory
>(so you can have other vi settings for a certain directory).

Are you sure?  Most versions of vi read both the .exrc file in the home
directory, and the one in the current directory (even if the current
directory IS the home directory).

--
Hope this helps,

Hans Mulder			hansm@cs.kun.nl