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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: <tab> to space under vi, VI SUMMARY COMING SOON...
Message-ID: <559@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 19:11:22 GMT
References: <462@gordon.UUCP> <239@unicom.UUCP> <6659@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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Keywords: vi, tab, vi summary
Summary: Yes, you can pipe buffer through tab expander, but there must be
	a better way...
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In article <6659@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> shipley@web5b.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Peter Shipley) writes:
>In article <239@unicom.UUCP> daniel@unicom.UUCP (Dan "I want to Ski Tam!" Smith) writes:
>}Is there a way to force 'vi' editor to insert appropreiate number of spaces
>}when <tab> key is hit?
>What is wrong with:
>
>       :%!unexpand

[Hope I've managed to preserve correct attributions in paring that down.]

Well, what's wrong with it is that you'd rather vi did the expansion itself
automatically.  But, failing that, if you haven't got unexpand, then

        :%!pr -te

works as well.  But I'd still like to see a more elegant fix.  None has yet
arrived at this machine.  (I did read all received postings before jumping
in, honest.)  In particular, macros which map tab to a fixed nuber of
spaces don't have the desired effect.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp