On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 10:45:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was
> mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do
> I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is
> there some other key that is used for that purpose?
I disagree w/ using spaces, tabs are nice and allow each user to set their own
tab space (i like 4, you like 3 so we each set our tabset appropriately and
never have to edit the code)
Or, if you disagree with that sentiment, you can execute
expand --tabs x filetoexpand > someotherfile ; mv someotherfile filetoexpand
DON'T expand a file and redirect the output to itself...you will lose
the file (learned this the hard way...makes perfect sense in retrospect :)
- flip
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