Other posters are probably correct…there might be spaces mixed in with your tabs. Try doing a search & replace to replace all tabs with a few spaces. Try this: import sys def Factorial(n): # return factorial result = 1 for i in range (1,n): result = result * i print “factorial is “,result return result … Read more
To format a selection: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F To format a document: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D See the pre-defined keyboard shortcuts. (These two are Edit.FormatSelection and Edit.FormatDocument.) Note for macOS On macOS, use the CMD ⌘ key instead of Ctrl: To format a selection: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+F To format a document: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+D
To convert existing tabs to spaces, press Edit->Blank Operations->TAB to Space. If in the future you want to enter spaces instead of tab when you press tab key: Go to Settings->Preferences…->Language (since version 7.1) or Settings->Preferences…->Tab Settings (previous versions) Check Replace by space (Optional) You can set the number of spaces to use in place … Read more
You don’t need any plugins to do this. Just select all lines (CTRL+A) and then from the menu select Edit → Line → Reindent. This will work if your file is saved with an extension that contains HTML like .html or .php. If you do this often, you may find this key mapping useful: { … Read more
As has been pointed out in a couple of other answers, the preferred method now is NOT to use smartindent, but instead use the following (in your .vimrc): filetype plugin indent on ” show existing tab with 4 spaces width set tabstop=4 ” when indenting with ‘>’, use 4 spaces width set shiftwidth=4 ” On … Read more
Update: Better answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38258720/62202 To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there’s a special “paste” mode. Type :set paste Then paste your code. Note that the text in the tooltip now says — INSERT (paste) –. After you pasted your code, turn off the paste-mode, so that auto-indenting when you type works correctly … Read more
Use the > command. To indent five lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj> to indent three lines (Vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >% or from anywhere inside block use >iB. If you’re copying blocks of text … Read more