[oclug] spaces and tabs

[Patrick Smith]

Jon Earle wrote:
>>>Vim does that?  Cool!  I'll have to figure out how to do that as I use vim
>>>for all my unix dev work.
>>
>>:set expandtab
> 
> That is just too sweeeeeet!  Tomorrow I fix my perl scripts and never
> will I need to worry about this again!

Unfortunately, this has one main drawback:  makefiles, where the 
space/tab distinction is important.  Assuming you have "set expandtab" 
in your .vimrc, when editing a makefile you can either manually ":set 
noet" or type control-v, tab to get a real tab character.

(It's almost certainly possible to get vim to automatically turn off
expandtab when editing makefiles.  Personally, I've never gotten around 
to it.)