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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: .exrc example?
Message-ID: <1989Oct31.015320.28332@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 31 Oct 89 01:53:20 GMT
References: <2238IA80001@MAINE>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <2238IA80001@MAINE> by IA80001@MAINE.BITNET (George Newell):
+---------------
| set hardtabs=4
| # Setting hardtabs to 4 means when I hit TAB key, my indentation is 4.
| 
| set tabstops=4
| # Setting tabstops is similar to hardtabs.
+---------------

"hardtabs" means that the terminal has tabs set every N spaces.  "tabstops"
means that ex/vi should treat a tab as N spaces.  The difference is that
"hardtabs" tells ex/vi when to use a tab to position the cursor when writing
to the terminal screen; it does *not* affect the meaning of a tab in a file.

++Brandon
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