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Perform all your vim insert mode completions with Tab
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vim writes 4 spaces instead of a tab when supertab is installed #201

Closed orendanniel015 closed 5 years ago

orendanniel015 commented 5 years ago

I write a lot of python code where, it is not that nice to mix tabs with spaces since my code is written with tabs it is problematic for me to use 4 spaces. any how from some weird reason when I have supertab and I type tab(when there is no character behind the cursor) it writes 4 spaces. How can I force vim to use tabs when supertab is installed.

Thanks for the help!

ervandew commented 5 years ago

When not completing, supertab will send a <tab> character, so in that case it should be no different with or without supertab installed.

What is the result of running the following in vim: :verbose set expandtab?

orendanniel015 commented 5 years ago

Hello ervandew and thanks for your quick response! It returns noexpandtab

orendanniel015 commented 5 years ago

I have found the problem from some strange reason Vundle changes the tab behavior of vim. After I have changed to pathogen the tab behavior works as expected.

ervandew commented 5 years ago

weird. i wonder if vundle was loading a file that pathogen isn't. That verbose command I gave you should show the name of the last file that modified the setting. If it didn't, then perhaps something else was going on. Either way, glad you were able to work around the problem.