bahamas10 / tabstop

Manage tab stop styles in Vim

ts(1) - Tab Stop Manager for Vim

Manage tab stop styles in Vim. Used for switching between X number of spaces and hard tabs for different file types.

Getting Started

ts works by managing a file in your home directory named ~/.vimrc.indent. To enable ts just add the following lines to your .vimrc file.

if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc.indent"))
    source ~/.vimrc.indent
endif

Now, the ts command can be used to see what rules are set

$ ts
$

As you can see, because the file doesn't exist yet there are no rules, so let's create some.

ts ruby 2
ts javascript 2
ts python 4
ts c tabs

Then, let's run ts to see what we have

$ ts
c               tabs
javascript      2 spaces
python          4 spaces
ruby            2 spaces

The underlying file looks like

$ cat ~/.vimrc.indent
autocmd FileType javascript setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType python setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et
autocmd FileType ruby setlocal sw=2 sts=2 et
autocmd FileType c setlocal sw=8 sts=8 noet

Examples

List all rules

$ ts
c               tabs
javascript      2 spaces
python          4 spaces
ruby            2 spaces

View a specific rule

$ ts javascript
2 spaces

Or a rule that doesn't exist

$ ts foobar
$ echo $?
1

Delete a rule

$ ts c
tabs
$ ts -d c
$ ts c
$ echo $?
1

Install

You can place the ts command anywhere in your $PATH to run it as a standalone script, or source it from your .bashrc file to use it as a function.

Optionally, use Bics to manage this plugin

bics install git://github.com/bahamas10/tabstop.git

License

MIT License