Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hpdmd48!alien From: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Question on tab stops in vi Message-ID: <15030006@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Date: 18 May 91 00:21:11 GMT References: <1991May09.190644.13627@Kesa.COM> Organization: swing shift Lines: 3 And of course, if you want to get rid of the tabs for compatibility with foreign software, you can pipe the file through 'expand'. The inverse function is provided by 'unexpand'.