Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!sde@mitre-bedford.ARPA From: sde@mitre-bedford.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: vi tabs Message-ID: <6949@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 18:28:31 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6949 Posted: Thu Jan 3 18:28:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:43:41 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 31 Thank you for the pointing out the expand filter. I looked up tab[s], etc. but didn't think of that keyword. |>A vi question (they don't give out complete manuals here, it seems): | Give me a break. We hand out everything that comes from Bezerkley. |Did you know enough to ask the librarian for the ex documentation too? I had asked for all documentation on vi and had received: Edit: A Tutorial (21 pages) Ex: Reference Manual (19+3 pages) An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (30 pages), and was told that that was all that was HERE. Since it seemed reasonable that something like a Vi reference manual exist somewhere, my parenthetical comment was a statement of observation (and perhaps should have included "absit invidia"), along the lines of RAH's "fair witness" idea. It may be that I should have said that no complete manuals are available, but I cannot bear witness to that statement, only to the weaker remark that I made. By the way, I have used editors that allowed one to specify that tabs were immediately converted to spaces on input, though I am perfectly willing to kludge things with expand, if that's the only way to do it. |>How can one get vi to cease putting actual tab chars into files? | If you type tab characters into a file, vi will put them there. And as you noted, if one makes use of autoindentation, one is effectively typing tab chars. Absit Invidia, David sde@mitre-bedford