Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 06:10:08 +0200 From: Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces Message-ID: <20200527041008.GD95043@mithril> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <0c30ebf7-e5b1-6fcb-d81e-2a039415f8a1@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Le mardi 26 mai 2020 à 21:54:10 (+0100), Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions à écrit: Hello friends, > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 14:48, Derek (freebsd lists) > <482254ac@razorfever.net> wrote: > > > > Hiya, > > > > After all these years, I'm finally wanting to switch tabs to spaces for > > certain documents (yaml comes to mind, python another), but I'm finding > > the FreeBSD nvi lacks expandtab, yet OpenBSD's (as of 6.7) supports this > > option. > > > > What is the canonical way to use space indentation in FreeBSD's nvi? > > > > Is there any appetite (from committers) for a patch/import of the > > feature from OpenBSD? > > After careful checking, the expandtab option was introduced to NetBSD first: > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2008/12/10/msg001482.html > > by Luke Mewburn and probably backported to OpenBSD later. This has > never gone (I think) into FreeBSD base. If one wants to make a port > out of it, they can look at the pkgsrc port: > https://pkgsrc.se/editors/nvi > > and adjust Makefile, etc. > > Note that the $HOMEPAGE is 404 and the distfile is cached somewhere on > the NetBSD servers. Not sure to ㄩnderstand the problem. Octavio want to switch tab to spaces in it's sources files. He use nvi (I don't, I use vim) and expandtab seems to not work. I إad the same issur with vim and discover the :retab command which actually does visualy the expandtab job. The sequesce is: <esc>:expantab <esc>:retab Again I don't use nvi but I thingk that's could be æ solution. Please execuse me if I am out of goal and my intervention is not in the subjet. -- Jacques Foucry
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