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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HOW DO I MAKE VI'S AUTOINDENT NOT USE TABS?
Summary: How about setting autoindent to noautoindent?
Message-ID: <1219@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 88 15:38:03 GMT
References: <3493@ut-emx.UUCP> <8979@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2965@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Organization: AT&T During the Day, Winston-Salem, NC
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In article <2965@tekig4.TEK.COM> clarkm@tekig4.UUCP (Clark Morgan) writes:
>
>	Vi is a nice editor: it gets the job done quickly and uses
>	minimal key strokes to accomplish a given task.  But I can't
>	stand the fact that it puts tabs in my documents/programs when
>	I never even touched the Tab key.  If the designers of this
>	program thought that auto-tab-insertion was such a neat idea,
>	how come they didn't go the extra mile and give us an option
>	that says:  "I won't auto-tab your files." 


I'm coming in late to this discussion, so if I missed something,
well, sorry.

But there *is* an option that says not to auto-tab.

I use vi all the time - using SVR2 and SVR3 on 3B20s, and using
3.5 UNIX on my on my UNIX PC.  I never get any tabs I don't explicitly
ask for.

I did a

	:se all

to check the settings I have when I'm working, and included in the
list is one

	noautoindent

That must be the default on all the systems I work on because I don't
ever set up anything.  If I reset that with

	:se autoindent

I get the automatic indention/tabbing I gather you're talking about.
But resetting to

	:se noautoindent

turns it off again.  If it matters, hardtabs=8 and tabstop=8.



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