Function editing with Vim throws IndentError

[Timothy Grant]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:

> In message
> <e23f51c1-7160-4aba-bea0-d624ec9a1bc6 at w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com>,
> Matimus
> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 24, 2:54 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
> > central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> >> In message
> >> <f558e635-aa40-4d54-bd1a-45e8463cd... at v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
> >>
> >> Matimus wrote:
> >> > That isn't the standard. With that setup tabs will show up as 4
> >> > spaces, and still confuse you.
> >>
> >> Why should that be confusing? The most common tab-stop setting is 4
> >> columns.
> >
> > A tab character is specified as 8 spaces.
>
> Specified by whom? The most common setting these days is 4 columns.
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A tab-stop has historically been 8 spaces. Most terminals, printers and
other devices understand the tab as 8 characters.

Smart editors have made it easy to make tabs APPEAR as four spaces, but they
are almost universally interpreted elsewhere as 8 characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key

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tjg. [Timothy Grant]
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