Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-11 Thread Shao Zhang
William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Vim supports several options to munge tabs in various ways. One is expandtab, which will replace each TAB character with the number of spaces defined by tabstop. But this replaces the TAB, which may not be what some people want. See

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-08 Thread Vee-Eye
Though quiet obsolete, just to be complete I didn't get this right in the second mail, it must be, of course: spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs? :!expand -t tabwide % | lpr

vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
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

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
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

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... 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 what's about expanding the tabs?

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... 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 what's about expanding the tabs?

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread USM Bish
I use elvis (not vim). There is no such problem. Incidentally, have you changed your tab setting to anything other than the default 8 ? USM Bish On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
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

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
William Jensen wrote: 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

RE: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
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

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
Bill Vim supports several options to munge tabs in various ways. One is expandtab, which will replace each TAB character with the number of spaces defined by tabstop. But this replaces the TAB, which may not be what some people want. See also softtabstop, which will simulate a tabstop