From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 13:59:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.mind.net (morpheus.mind.net [206.101.72.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E915237B40A for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox@morpheus.mind.net) Received: (from jfox@localhost) by morpheus.mind.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7DKxTN35846 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:59:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:59:28 -0700 From: John Fox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Expanding tabs to spaces within nvi Message-ID: <20010813135928.I10559@mind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Listers, I was just reading some indentation tips on the vim homepage, and ran across a setting that causes vim to expand a tab into a sequence of spaces. This is spiffy to me, because I like tabstops of 4, but when anybody else gets my code in an editor, it looks funky till they change their tabstop setting to match the original. Does anybody know if nvi can be made to do this? I've just finished reading the nvi manpage, and it appears to me that the answer to my question is "No", but I wanted to be sure. Thank you for any thoughts you might have on the matter, John -- John Fox System Administrator, InfoStructure, Ashland OR USA --------------------------------------------------------- "What is loved endures. And Babylon 5 ... Babylon 5 endures." --Delenn, "Rising Stars", Babylon 5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message