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Enable soft tabs, ruler in VIM Editor
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.vimrc
"------------------------------------------------------------
" To control the number of space characters that will be inserted when the
" Tab key is pressed, set the 'tabstop' option. For example, to insert 4 spaces for a tab
"------------------------------------------------------------
set tabstop=4
"------------------------------------------------------------
" makes the spaces feel like real tabs.
"------------------------------------------------------------
set softtabstop=4
"------------------------------------------------------------
" change the number of space characters inserted for indentation
"------------------------------------------------------------
set shiftwidth=4
"------------------------------------------------------------
" insert space characters whenever the tab key is pressed
"------------------------------------------------------------
set expandtab
"------------------------------------------------------------
" set ruler
" To set the colors in a terminal version of Vim
"------------------------------------------------------------
set colorcolumn=85
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=DarkGray
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