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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:30:36 -0400
From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: John Fox <jjf@mind.net>
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Subject: Re: Expanding tabs to spaces within nvi
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 13 16:59 -0400,
sent by John Fox                                                     
>
> 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.


if you only want to change tabstops to, say, 8, then you can do...

set ts=8

...either in command mode, or in ~/.exrc, or as EXINIT environment 
variable. if you want to change tabs to spaces, this may help you...

perl -pi -e 's#\t#        #g' <file>
 
...or, you may prefer similar substitution inside nvi.



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