[Eric] eric and vim softtabstop

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Donnerstag, 13. August 2009, Milos Prudek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use vim 7 but I would like to start using eric.
>
> Unfortunately eric displays my source files with wrong indentation. This is
> probably because vim uses tabs to "compress" indentation.
>
> I use this .vimrc setting:
> set softtabstop=2
> set shiftwidth=2
> set foldmethod=indent
> set autoindent
>
> I use eric 4.1.1 (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS).
>
> My Preferences-Editor-General settings: Tab width: 2 Indentation width: 2
>
> Workaround:
> - add expandtab to .vimrc
> - open each source python file in vim
> - type :retab
> - save each source python file
>
> Can Eric be set so that the workaround is not needed?

Did you enable the "convert tabs upon open" setting?

Detlev
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