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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tabs in vi
Message-ID: <12187@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 89 14:55:21 GMT
References: <7901@ardent.UUCP> <36790001@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ghe@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He)
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Oregon State University
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In article <36790001@hpindwa.HP.COM> sgordon@hpindwa.HP.COM (Shaun Gordon) writes:
=> Is there a way to make it so that when ever I hit the TAB key
=> in 'vi' that I get 4 spaces rather than an actual tab?  I would
=> rather not have to run expand after running vi, as I would only
=> want to do that if I actually changed the file.
=
=While inside vi you can type a colon to get to the command line and then enter:
=
=set tabstop=4
=
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No, 'set tabstop=4' does not do what he requested in the original post. He
wants REAL space. 'set tabstop=4' makes tabs look like 4 spaces but if you
do a 'set list', you can see tab still there. On this question, I don't see
any easy solution.
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