Ups. good luck then; that is bound to conflict with other editors; I think the Visual studio editor (or eclipse?) used to have 4 characters for tabs, if everyb

Ups. good luck then; that is bound to conflict with other editors; I think the Visual studio editor (or eclipse?) used to have 4 characters for tabs, if everybody is on Visual studio then you are fine. Of course if everybody in the shop has the same editor / editor settings then life is easier. vim has 8 spaces for tabstop and that's what its docs say: "Note: Setting 'tabstop' to any other value than 8 can make your file appear wrong in many places (e.g., when printing it)."