Vim Set Tab To 4 Spaces

Set tabstop 4 set shiftwidth 4 set expandtab or as a oneliner.
Vim set tab to 4 spaces. Set tabstop 4 shiftwidth 4 expandtab add the above settings to your vimrc. You have 8 columns of whitespace. Set shiftwidth 4 for example to get the following coding style no tabs in the source file. Say suppose i copy the code from unix to texpad wordpad textpad will interpret tab as 8 spaces i can set tab space in textpad to 4 spaces but i cant tell everyone who copy my code to text pad to set their tab in textpad.
Create a vimrc file with this line. But this inserts tab. You can put these settings in a vimrc or vimrc on windows in your home directory so you only have to type them once. Use the following set of options.
Shiftwidth determines how many columns text is indented when using reindent operations. Within vim type a colon and then set tabstop 4 which will set the tabs to display as four spaces. Adjusting indent edit edit source. So first set the number of spaces a tab should be then set expandtab.
Expandtab is what actually uses spaces instead of tabs. You run set expandtab tabstop 4. Set tabstop 2 shiftwidth 2 expandtab. Set ts 4 sw 4 this will set tabstops every 4 spaces and set the shiftwidth that amount you indent as 4 spaces also to match your tabstops.
The two tabs on screen each become worth 4 columns of whitespace but they don t turn to spaces yet. I would like a command that will insert 4 spaces when i press tab instead of inserting tab of length 4 in vi. Hit colon again and type set expandtab which will insert spaces for tabs.