Amol, I plan to implement :abbr some time in the future.

On the other hand, 'expandtab' mode, as in using spaces instead of tabs, is supported - but it honors the VS setting assigned to the tab size, as set in Tools|Options|Text Editor|Favorite language|Tabs. Given than when autoindenting and in insert mode there is no way to divorce tab's behavior from VS's setting (it would break Intellisense), I think it's best to respect that setting also in normal mode (the > operator, etc).

It would be possible to support the expandtab/shiftwidth interface, but they'd have to change the filetype-wide setting instead of being a buffer local setting.

Let me know if you think something else makes more sense.

Sorry to pull this one from the grave.  I recently purchased ViEmu and love it a bunch.  However, I miss one feature above all others.  I don't know if it is expandtab, or shiftwidth, but Vim allows treating spaces as though they are tabs.   Consider the snippet below, where periods are actually spaces:

int.fn().{
..if.(i.==.0)
....return.-1;.........//Oops an error
..return.j;
}

Assuming tabstop=2 and shiftwidth=2, Vim treats each group of two spaces as a tab.  This means that it takes one delete to move the "if" line to the first column.  It means that it takes one delete to move the "return -1;" two columns to the left.

I'm not sure about the behavior after the start of the line.  So, I'm not sure the spaces before the comment are handled.  I'm pretty sure they are collapsed too.

Is this feature accounted for?  Can it be added?

Last edited by AngryLlama (2007-06-26 15:24:56)

I did help = but got nothing. you mention this operator in you last post. what does it do please?

thanks, that is another tool to add to my arsenal.