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Article #1390Re: damn tabs
From: tim
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 07:47
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 07:47
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mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson) writes: :: |> Right now I use the Unix "expand" command to remove all the |>tabs, but it is a tedious process. Is there a way to request |>vi to replace the tabs with spaces before it saves the file? : |Is |1G!Gexpand -4 |really all that tedious (of course replace -4 with your favourite width)? Well it's one character more tedious than :%!expand -4 Tx. [father forgive me] -- Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!canon.co.uk!tim From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: damn tabs Message-ID: <92Oct07.0847.25430@crash.canon.co.uk> Date: 7 Oct 92 07:47:48 GMT References: <1992Oct6.040531.25139@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1992Oct6.180939.16016@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: Tim F O'Donoghue <uunet!canon!tim> Organization: me myself and i Lines: 17