Misuse of <tab>

[Asun Friere]

ansible at typhoon.xnet.com (James Graves) wrote in message news:<bgbqmu$ksv$1 at flood.xnet.com>...

> That's handy.  I had known about 'set expandtab' for a while, but I
> wanted to figure out how to use it for just Python.

Note how Keith Jones, in the following post, achieves the same:

au FileType python set et

I wasn't aware of the 'FileType' setting, but it has the advantage of
working with files which vim recognises as python source, but which
don't necessarily end in 'py'.  Nice!