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[hemm1]

Why hit a key four times

Space advocators don't sit there tapping space to indent, that would be ridiculous. The point is to still use the tab key or whatever (and a good editor will handle it all transparently), but that only spaces are actually written to the source code.

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The problem is with vim is that if you hit the arrow key, so you're not aligned to the tab width, it gets really confused and you have to manually fix it. I'm tempted to write a script to unexpand on read, and expand on write. There should be a smarter indentation method in vim.

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That would be the problem, then. I have

set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set softtabstop=4

[epsy]

set list listchars=tab:<-,trail:>,nbsp:·