How To Force vim to Convert Tabs to Spaces

Author: , November 26th, 2019

To create indents with 4 space characters which are entered by pressing the TAB key:

To make the above settings permanent add to your ~/.vimrc file. For more details on any of these see :help ‘optionname’ in vim (e.g. :help ‘tabstop’) tabstop The width of a hard tabstop measured in “spaces” — effectively the […]