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+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:Indentation Options|Indentation Options]]
-===== Indentation with spaces =====
+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:Automatic Indentation Methods|Automatic Indentation Methods]]
+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:File type based indentation|File type based indentation]]
-To indent with only spaces, and not with tabs.
+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:Indentation purely with hard tabs|Indentation purely with hard tabs]]
+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:Indentation with mixed tabs and spaces|Indentation with mixed tabs and spaces]]
-<code>
+  * [[VIM:Config:Indentation:Indentation with spaces|Indentation with spaces]]
-set expandtab
-set shiftwidth=2
-set softtabstop=2
-</code>
-<WRAP info>
-**NOTE:**  These settings will result in spaces being used for all indentation.
-  * The principle is to set **expandtab**, and **set shiftwidth** and **set softtabstop** to the same value, while leaving **tabstop** at its default value.
-</WRAP>
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-===== Indentation purely with hard tabs =====
-<code>
-set shiftwidth=2
-set tabstop=2
-</code>
-<WRAP info>
-**NOTE:**  These settings will result in hard tabs being used for all indentation.
-  * The principle is to set **set tabstop** and **set shiftwidth** to the same value, and to leave **expandtab** at its default value (**noexpandtab**), and leave **softtabstop** unset.
-</WRAP>
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-===== Indentation with mixed tabs and spaces =====
-<code>
-set shiftwidth=2
-set softtabstop=2
-</code>
-<WRAP info>
-**NOTE:**  These settings will cause as many hard tabs as possible being used for indentation, and spaces will be used to fill in the rest.
-  * If you want to distinguish between "indentation" and "alignment", i.e., the number of hard tabs equals the indentation level, use the Smart Tabs plug-in.
-  * The principle is to set **set shiftwidth** and **set softtabstop** to the same value, leave **expandtab** at its default (**noexpandtab**).
-    * Usually, **tabstop** is left at its default value.
-</WRAP>
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-<file ~/.vimrc>
-:set shiftwidth=2
-:set autoindent
-:set smartindent
-</file>
-<WRAP info>
-**NOTE:**
-  * **set expandtab** allows to replace the tabs by white spaces characters :h 'expandtab'.
-  * **set shiftwidth=2** makes the tabulations be 2 white spaces :h 'shiftwidth'.
-  * **set autoindent**:  to automatically indent newlines.
-    * **autoindent** essentially tells vim to apply the indentation of the current line to the next (created by pressing **<enter>** in insert mode or with **O** or **o** in normal mode.
-  * **set smartindent**:  reacts to the syntax of the code.
-    * **smartindent** reacts to the syntax/style of the code you are editing (especially for C).
-    * When having it on you also should have autoindent on.
-  * **:help autoindent** also mentions two alternative settings:
-    * **cindent** and **indentexpr**, both of which make vim ignore the value of **smartindent**.
-  * You could also be interested by by :h 'tabstop' which defines the number of spaces that a tab character in the file counts for.
-  * As a bonus see :h 'smartindent' and :h 'autoindent' which are pretty useful.
-</WRAP>
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