Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:23:56 +0100 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: vim, was: nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces Message-ID: <CAEJNuHwkj325k7wVeb4NMv8k3hgYX-n=3NCBE7%2B7LQnscQj%2BEw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200527041008.GD95043@mithril> References: <0c30ebf7-e5b1-6fcb-d81e-2a039415f8a1@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200527041008.GD95043@mithril>
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 05:10, Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> w= rote: > > Le mardi 26 mai 2020 =C3=A0 21:54:10 (+0100), Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-= questions =C3=A0 =C3=A9crit: > > > 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 f= or > > > certain documents (yaml comes to mind, python another), but I'm findi= ng > > > the FreeBSD nvi lacks expandtab, yet OpenBSD's (as of 6.7) supports t= his > > > 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 f= irst: > > 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 =E3=84=A9nderstand the problem. Yes, because you need to read the thread from the start. > > Octavio want to switch tab to spaces in it's sources files. Actually, it's a NetBSD patch. > He use nvi (I > don't, I use vim) and expandtab seems to not work. > > I =D8=A5ad the same issur with vim and discover the :retab command which = actually > does visualy the expandtab job. > > The sequesce is: > <esc>:expantab > <esc>:retab I use the latest vim and I don't have retab: : set retab? E518: Unknown option: retab? > > Again I don't use nvi but I thingk that's could be =C3=A6 solution. > > Please execuse me if I am out of goal and my intervention is not in the > subjet. As above ^. --=20 Ottavio Caruso
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