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From: cheeks@edsr.eds.com (Mark Costlow)
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Subject: Re: tabbing  (was .exrc example?)
Keywords: tab map vi
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Date: 13 Nov 89 18:15:44 GMT
References: <4468@solo10.cs.vu.nl> <2238IA80001@MAINE> <1989Oct31.015320.28332@NCoast.ORG> <PCG.89Nov1163541@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk> <6820@ficc.uu.net> <47797@bbn.COM> <4988@ethz-inf.UUCP>
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In article <4468@solo10.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
[ ... lots of stuff deleted ... ]
> 
> You could always map! tab to ^T:
> 
> 	map! ^V^V^I ^V^T
> 
On every machine I tried this on, the ^I expands to 8 spaces, and I get
"Missing rhs".  (I tried it on Sun-3's and Sun-4s running SunOS 3.4 and 4.0.3,
and HP9000s300s running HP-UX 6.2 and 6.5).  Nothing else I've tried works
either ... does anyone know a way to accomplish this mapping?

cheeks@edsr.eds.com