If I want to use vim tabs instead of gnome-terminal tabs, typing :tabn and :tabp is quite cumbersome. I could map them to keyboard shortcuts, but that is still a lot less convenient than jumping directly to tab 4 with Alt + 4. Is there a faster way to switch between tabs in vim?

Is it possible to get vim to open multiple files into tabs, similar to the way the args <path> command will open multiple files into buffers? Doing something like :tabe ./* results in the er...

Dec 20, 2011 · Also, is there a way to likewise un-TAB (by this I don't mean get rid of *all* tabs) those 5 adjacent lines? So let's say line 1 is tabbed twice, line 2 is tabbed four times, etc, can it be so that if you want to un-TAB them together, line 1 will now be tabbed only once, and line 2 now tabbed 3 times, etc?

Jun 4, 2023 · When I work on files in python, I sometimes mistake tabs for spaces and vice versa. Is there a way I can get Vim to display a character for a tab instead of a tab?

May 27, 2016 · Several settings controls the behavior: First set expandtab allows to replace the tabs by white spaces characters :h 'expandtab'. Then set shiftwidth=4 makes the tabulations be 4 white spaces :h 'shiftwidth'. You could also be interested by by :h 'tabstop' which defines the number of spaces that a tab character in the file counts for.

May 31, 2020 · Judging from the images, you want 4 spaces for tab. Put the following in your .vimrc: set tabstop=4 " Redefine tab as four spaces set softtabstop=4 " Number of spaces in tab when editing set shiftwidth=4 " To change the number of space characters inserted for indentation set autoindent " Auto indent set smartindent " Does the right thing (mostly) in programs filetype indent plugin on " Enables ...

Feb 6, 2015 · Vim provides :retab! command which will replace all sequences of <Tab> with new strings of white-space using the new tabstop (e.g. :set tabstop=2) value given, but all tabs inside of strings can be modified (e.g. in a C program, you should use \t to avoid this)! So alternatively you can change all tabs into spaces using the following command:

Dec 17, 2015 · How can I add and remove tabs in normal mode in vim? Also, how can I add and remove tabs in visual mode (like selecting a code block in a regular editor and hitting tab or shift tab?

I am using Vim 7.4 and I wish to map the tab key so I can use new combinations to autocomplete arguments in command mode from the current directory Contents of current directory: Funwithstrings.cs

Tab-separated columns only work when the program used to display them is able to expand/shrink tab characters to honor their actual meaning. Vim, and I believe most other plain text editors, is unable to use tabs for tabulation because tabs have a single fixed width.