Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!bbn!inmet!ishmael!inmet!authorplaceholder From: milos@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: HOW DO I MAKE VI'S AUTOINDENT N Message-ID: <143200001@inmet> Date: 11 Jul 88 21:09:00 GMT References: <6182@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:uwmcsd1.UUCP:-618200:inmet:143200001:000:604 Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!milos Jul 11 17:09:00 1988 This is all well and good for creating new files or editing existing files that were created with tabstop=70. It is not, however, the way to go if you are editing files that were created with more typical tabstop settings, e.g., tabstop=8. In such cases, the only reasonable solution (as identified in another note addressing this subject) is to run the source file through "expand" to eliminate the undesired tabs; unfortunately, this has the potentially undesirable side-effect of making the source file appear to have undergone more changes than necessary -- not nice if you're dealing with SCCS/RCS.