Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: tabbing (was .exrc example?) Keywords: tab map vi Message-ID: <4530@ski.cs.vu.nl> Date: 14 Nov 89 00:44:14 GMT References: <4468@solo10.cs.vu.nl> <2238IA80001@MAINE> <1989Oct31.015320.28332@NCoast.ORG> <6820@ficc.uu.net> <47797@bbn.COM> <4988@ethz-inf.UUCP> <225@xochitl.UUCP> Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 17 In article <225@xochitl.UUCP> cheeks@edsr.eds.com writes: \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, It must be something in your other maps, or still something else, because here, *using SunOS 4.0.3*, it works! (Of course the tab would expand to 8 spaces, as long as the shiftwidth is 8.) -- "Richard Sexton is actually an AI program (or Construct, if you will) running on some AT&T (R) 3B" (Richard Brosseau) | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart