Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8096 comp.bugs.misc:133 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!panda!teddy!jpn 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 References: <399@cb.ecn.purdue.edu> <177@skep2.ATT.COM> Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 14 >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. -- john nelson UUCP: {decvax,mit-eddie}!genrad!teddy!jpn smail: jpn@genrad.com