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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Tabs and vi
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Date: 9 Feb 88 20:03:52 GMT
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Reply-To: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Two questions about tabs from within vi:
  a) for a variety of reasons, I _despise_ true TAB chars.  Is there a
  way to have vi _never_ use them (and just always use the right number
  of spaces).
  b) If I can't have (a), can I at least prevent vi from autoindenting
  by using tabs?  I generally run along with :set ai, and the 
  shiftwidth=4, and what it seems happens is that vi uses
  a TAB character for every <shiftwidth> of indenting (which of course
  looks _great_ once I go back to UNIX where the tab chars become 8
  positions again. :-()

Thanks!.
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