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Yank Leo
Yank Leo

Reputation: 582

How to insert Tabs(not spaces) in vim?

I want to use tabs(not spaces) in vim for both indentation and when I specifically press <Tab>. I changed my .vimrc after looking up on the internet but doesn't seem to work.

.vimrc

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h,*.pyx match BadWhitespace /\s\+$/
    \ set tabstop=4
    \ set shiftwidth=4
    \ set softtabstop=4
    \ set textwidth=79
    \ set noexpandtab
    \ set autoindent
    \ set fileformat=unix

set encoding=utf-8

Tabs are inserted when i use <C-v><Tab> but otherwise spaces are inserted instead of tabs.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1397

Answers (1)

Andreas Louv
Andreas Louv

Reputation: 47099

You need <bar> (|) between each command, and you can join the sets together: 

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h,*.pyx match BadWhitespace /\s\+$/ |
    \ setlocal tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 noexpandtab autoindent
    \ textwidth=79 fileformat=unix

set encoding=utf-8

You can show trailing whitespaces with the listchars trail:

set listchars+=trail:-

Upvotes: 2

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