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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Text file tab utility
Message-ID: <1815@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 13:57:01 EST
Article-I.D.: vax135.1815
Posted: Tue Mar 24 13:57:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 01:48:40 EST
References: <8703240644.AA00426@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 12
Keywords: shiftwidth
Summary: vi

In article <8703240644.AA00426@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Both VI and Z have the same problem... namely that there is only one
>type of 'tab'.  When you set tabs to 4 in either VI or Z, it writes out
>to the file using the tab character but assuming it's 4 rather than 8.

Are we speaking of the same vi?  On 4.2BSD, :set shiftwidth=4, then use
^T to shift line right, ^D to shift left (insert mode), or >>, << command mode.
You get all (8-space) tabs except the rightmost 4 spaces every other shift.
(I like this arrangement by the way.)

	Charles Poirier