set smartindent
set autoindent
" Tab control
set expandtab " insert spaces rather than tabs for <Tab>
set smarttab " tab respects 'tabstop', 'shiftwidth', and 'softtabstop'
set tabstop=4 " the visible width of tabs
set softtabstop=4 " edit as if the tabs are 4 characters wide
set shiftwidth=4 " number of spaces to use for indent and unindent
set shiftround " round indent to a multiple of 'shiftwidth'
" Show tabs as ">-
set list listchars=tab:>-,trail:.,extends:>