vim whitespace sets tab, whitespace, trailing whitespace rules to reasonable values
vim whitespace sets tab, whitespace, trailing whitespace rules to reasonable values
To update (replacing the current version) run webi vim-whitespace.
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\+$//eYou'll then need to update ~/.vimrc to source that plugin:
" Tabs & Whitespace: reasonable defaults from webinstall.dev/vim-whitespace
source ~/.vim/plugins/whitespace.vim