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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Tabs in VI
Message-ID: <4885@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 88 17:50:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>I'm not sure all of the implications, but
>	:set tabstop=0
>will let you do autoindent without tabs.  Already tabbed text seems to
>get treated decently.

At least with BSD versions of "vi", a :set tabstop=0 is IDENTICAL to
:set tabstop=8.  After setting the tabstop to zero, tabs are 8 long,
and a "set all" lists the tabstop variable as having the value 8, not 0.

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     john nelson

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