On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > > > I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt <file> the > > spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim > > totally different. I also tried printing from within vim with :%w !lpr but > > it had the same affect. How can I make vim print out exactly as it looks > > when I'm editing the file? Or, cringe, do I need to go to emacs? > > What's your 'ts' (tabstop) setting in vim? If it's anything but 8, > you'll have a difference of opinion between it and most of the rest of > the world. >
My tab stop is set to 3 (for coding). Indenting 8 spaces per tab in code is just wasteful. Anything I can do to get around this? Bill
