Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!finn From: finn@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: HOW DO I MAKE VI'S AUTOINDENT NOT USE TABS? Message-ID: <8979@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 88 22:56:03 GMT References: <3493@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: andyb@burcoat.uucp (Andy Behrens) Organization: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lines: 17 In article <3493@ut-emx.UUCP> jjr@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez) writes: > Vi's "set autoindent" option replaces every 8 spaces > with a tab when indenting. > Is there a way to make it use spaces instead? First get rid of any tabs that are in the file, then ":set tabstop=60". This will force vi not to use a tab unless the line is indented at least 60 spaces. You won't be able to use the tab key any more, but you can still use ^T and ^D for indenting. You might like to map the tab key to ^T if you are used to it. (:map ^V^V^I ^V^T). Andy Behrens {astrovax,linus,harvard,decvax}!dartvax!burcoat!andyb andyb%burcoat@dartmouth.EDU