Kakoune: how do I set tab-width?

Created on 24 Sep 2017 · 3Comments · Source: mawww/kakoune

I edited this file to set the tabwidth to a width of 2: $MY_KAK_DIR/share/kak/rc/extra/editorconfig.kak but when I insert a new tab, I get 4 spaces. How do I set my tab-width (indentwidth, tabstop) to 2 universally on my system?

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abitofalchemy

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The editorconfig.kak file is a script that teaches Kakoune to understand EditorConfig files in the current directory, it's not the actual configuration of Kakoune.

If you want Kakoune to use two-space indents all the time, put something like the following into ~/.config/kak/kakrc:

hook global InsertChar \t %{ exec -draft -itersel h@ }                      
set global tabstop 4                                                        
set global indentwidth 4

(the "hook" line makes Kakoune expand tabs as you type them)

See Indentation & Tabulation in the wiki for more details.

Screwtapello on 24 Sep 2017

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The editorconfig.kak file is a script that teaches Kakoune to understand EditorConfig files in the current directory, it's not the actual configuration of Kakoune.

If you want Kakoune to use two-space indents all the time, put something like the following into ~/.config/kak/kakrc:

hook global InsertChar \t %{ exec -draft -itersel h@ }                      
set global tabstop 4                                                        
set global indentwidth 4

(the "hook" line makes Kakoune expand tabs as you type them)

See Indentation & Tabulation in the wiki for more details.

Screwtapello on 24 Sep 2017

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Great, this works.

abitofalchemy on 25 Sep 2017

Seems like the up to date wiki page is: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Indentation-and-Tabulation ("and" rather than "&")