On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Warren Young wrote:
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> expand(1) goes way, way back before Cygwin. Not as far back as V7 Unix.
> Maybe 4.3BSD?
I did some research, and it turns out that that’s all wrong. :)
According to the FreeBSD/Mac OS X man pages, expand(1) was first introduced in
3BSD (19
On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Warren Young wrote:
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> Say :set expandtab. Now you don’t need expand(1) at all. :)
Ooops, Ernie’s answer made me look deeper, and it’s a bit more complicated. I
forget because I’ve wrapped it up into a couple of macros which I keep in my
~/.vimrc file:
function
I hit too quickly...
There's also vim's ":retab" command.
-ernie
On 7/2/2015 4:14 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
There used to be a very handy cygwin program called expand for expanding tabs
into spaces.
Now I cannot find it on the nice installation GUI (setup_x86_64.exe).
I tried searching th
On 7/2/2015 4:14 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
There used to be a very handy cygwin program called expand for expanding tabs
into spaces.
Now I cannot find it on the nice installation GUI (setup_x86_64.exe).
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/expand.exe
coreutils-8.15-3
Probably out of date, but I'd guess i
On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
>
> There used to be a very handy cygwin program called expand for expanding tabs
> into spaces.
expand(1) goes way, way back before Cygwin. Not as far back as V7 Unix. Maybe
4.3BSD?
> I tried searching the archives for it but there were t
There used to be a very handy cygwin program called expand for expanding tabs
into spaces.
Now I cannot find it on the nice installation GUI (setup_x86_64.exe).
I tried searching the archives for it but there were too many hits for other
topics ("expand" is a common word, apparently).
Has th
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