Some projects require for one reason or another to use spaces instead of a Tab character to indent the C/C++ code. Most of the time it is related to the diffs that are generated by the CM systems.
If you are a Vim user, you can configure your editor to insert spaces with Tab keystroke by adding these commands to your ~/.vimrc:
set ts=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set nowrap
This assumes that the width of desired tab is 4 characters.
gVim is a popular GUI font-end for Vim editor. However, I found the way gVim stores its configuration into ~/.vimrc non-intuitive:
- Go to your $HOME directory.
- Start the shell terminal.
- Start gvim from command-line.
- Configure your settings the way you like them to be.
- Save the setting to .vimrc with command
:mkvimrc
The trick here is to run gvim from your home directory. Otherwise, gVim writes .vimrc file in the current directory where it was started from.
