Blocked revisions 76154 via svnmerge

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  r76154 | brett.cannon | 2009-11-08 13:35:28 -0800 (Sun, 08 Nov 2009) | 4 lines

  Properly detect whether a C file is using tabs or spaces for Vim.

  Closes issue #5611. Thanks Kirk McDonald and Johannes Hoff.
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Misc/Vim/vimrc

@@ -15,35 +15,32 @@
 " Only basic settings needed to enforce the style guidelines are set.
 " Some suggested options are listed but commented out at the end of this file.
 
-
-" Number of spaces to use for an indent.
-" This will affect Ctrl-T and 'autoindent'.
-" Python: 4 spaces
-" C: 4 spaces
-au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*pyw set shiftwidth=4
-au BufRead *.c,*.h set shiftwidth=8
-au BufNewFile *.c,*.h set shiftwidth=4
-
 " Number of spaces that a pre-existing tab is equal to.
 " For the amount of space used for a new tab use shiftwidth.
-" Python: 8
-" C: 8
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *py,*pyw,*.c,*.h set tabstop=8
 
-" Replace tabs with the equivalent number of spaces.
-" Also have an autocmd for Makefiles since they require hard tabs.
-" Python: yes
-" C: yes
-" Makefile: no
-au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h set expandtab
+" What to use for an indent.
+" This will affect Ctrl-T and 'autoindent'.
+" Python: 4 spaces
+" C: tabs (pre-existing files) or 4 spaces (new files)
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*pyw set shiftwidth=4
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw set expandtab
+fu Select_c_style()
+    if search('^\t', 'n', 150)
+        set shiftwidth=8
+        set noexpandtab
+    el 
+        set shiftwidth=4
+        set expandtab
+    en
+endf
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.c,*.h call Select_c_style()
 au BufRead,BufNewFile Makefile* set noexpandtab
 
-" Use the below highlight group when displaying bad whitespace is desired
+" Use the below highlight group when displaying bad whitespace is desired.
 highlight BadWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
 
 " Display tabs at the beginning of a line in Python mode as bad.
-" Should be done for C code, but not until all code has been moved to 4-space
-"   indents.
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw match BadWhitespace /^\t\+/
 " Make trailing whitespace be flagged as bad.
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.py,*.pyw,*.c,*.h match BadWhitespace /\s\+$/