On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Dominic Evans wrote:
[snip]
the following commands replace leading spaces by tabs according to the
current value of the 'tabstop' option
:%s/^ \+/\=substitute(submatch(0), repeat(' ', &tabstop), "\t", 'g')
:%s/^ \+/\=substitute(submatch(0), ' \{' . &tabstop . '\}', "\t",
On 4/21/06, Gerald Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's a general dislike for tabs because it is editor-dependent. I
> only seem to find use for them in Makefiles.
Only the tabstop should be editor dependant. I follow the philosophy
of here: http://derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html - using tabs to
Hi
Dominic Evans wrote:
> I like to have leading spaces as tabs, but all spaces after any
> non-whitespace character has occurred to be regular spaces.
>
> Unfortunately :retab! performs the spaces->tab substitution throughout the
> file.
>
> In the past I have got around this by using the fol
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Dominic Evans wrote:
I like to have leading spaces as tabs, but all spaces after any
non-whitespace character has occurred to be regular spaces.
Unfortunately :retab! performs the spaces->tab substitution throughout the file.
In the past I have got around this by using the
I like to have leading spaces as tabs, but all spaces after any
non-whitespace character has occurred to be regular spaces.
Unfortunately :retab! performs the spaces->tab substitution throughout the file.
In the past I have got around this by using the following replace
instead (where ^I = tab)
