Can Vim display two spaces for indentation, while keeping four spaces in the file?

Question

I want to work on someone else\'s project, and he uses 4 spaces for indentation. I use 2, and my screen is not big enough to edit using 4 spaces comfortably.

Can I confi

Answer 1

The help has an example for a similar use case of different tab widths, see :help retab-example.

Adapting that to halving / doubling spaces:

:autocmd BufReadPost,BufWritePost  * %substitute/^\( \+\)\1/\1/e
:autocmd BufWritePre               * %substitute/^ \+/&&/e