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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tabs in vi
Message-ID: <14660015@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 89 02:25:48 GMT
References: <273@hhb.UUCP>
Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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> A quick way to do this is :$ to the end of the file, set a mark with
> ma, :0 back to the top, then type  !'aexpand -4<cr>    This runs the
> text of the file through expand, deletes it all, then replaces it with
> the output from expand.

You can do this without the mark by using "!Gexpand -4<cr>".  The "G" will
apply the expand from the current line to the end of the file.

  Michael