vim whitespace sets tab, whitespace, trailing whitespace rules to reasonable values
https://webinstall.dev/vim-whitespace| Installer Source| Releases (json) (tab)
vim whitespace sets tab, whitespace, trailing whitespace rules to reasonable values
https://webinstall.dev/vim-whitespace| Installer Source| Releases (json) (tab)
To update (replacing the current version) run webi vim-whitespace.
These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this install:
~/.vim/plugins/whitespace.vim
~/.vimrc
The idea that tabs should be 8 spaces wide is redonkulous.
This vim-whitespace plugin sets tabs to spaces (4 wide), trim trailing whitespace, and makes whitespace handling consistent.
Create the file ~/.vim/plugins/whitespace.vim. Add the same contents as
https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/blob/master/vim-whitespace/whitespace.vim.
That will look something like this:
" handle tabs as 4 spaces, in every direction, consintently
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set smarttab
set expandtab
set softtabstop=4
" remove trailing whitespace on save
autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e
You'll then need to update ~/.vimrc to source that plugin:
" Tabs & Whitespace: reasonable defaults from webinstall.dev/vim-whitespace
source ~/.vim/plugins/whitespace.vim