[Gllug] vi indenting

[tet at accucard.com]

>One place tabs fall down I've found is when using it for tabular data -
>because you can't set your tab stops separately for each text file you
>end up using muliple tabs just to line a column up.

Agreed. But in cases like that, tabstops every 8 characters is such a
pervasive standard that you might as well just go with that.

>Maybe what might be useful is a standard way of encoding tab stop
>details into the top of a text file e.g. something like:
>#!tabstops 8,12,16,18,20

I seem to recall vim let you do that in a modeline, but I could be
wrong.

Tet

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