Re: Question on tab stops in vi

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From: WAKITA Ken
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 16:26

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In article <163509@felix.UUCP> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) writes:

 > *MY* problem is that vi automagically replaces every 8 spaces with a
 > _real_ hardtab (^I), which, at least for posting to the net, I'd like 
 > to be able to turn off.  So far, if I use indents for anything, I 
 > double-check at the end with (:%s/^I/        /g).
 > 
 > Does anybody know how to turn _this_ "feature" off?

My setting is not a solution but is rather a compromise.

set ts=100

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Ken WAKITA (ken-w@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

			  		Department of Information Science,
						University of Tokyo, Japan.

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