Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig5!tekig4!clarkm From: clarkm@tekig4.TEK.COM (Clark Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Tabs in VI Message-ID: <3001@tekig4.TEK.COM> Date: 7 Jul 88 06:13:03 GMT References: <399@cb.ecn.purdue.edu> <177@skep2.ATT.COM> Reply-To: clarkm@tekig4.UUCP (Clark Morgan) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 20 In article <177@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,) writes: >Someone asked how to get vi to do autoindent using spaces rather than >tabs. 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. > Bill, how did you do that? Our version of vi accepts :se ts=0, but silently sets the tabstop back to 8. In other words, I can't get there from here. We're running Gould's flavor of BSD4.3, and our version of vi is "3.7, 6/7/85". ># Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs -- Clark Morgan, Tektronix Lab Instruments Engineering (503) 627-3545 clarkm@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM | {...,decvax,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!clarkm US Mail: Tektronix, P.O. Box 500, DS 39-087, Beaverton, OR 97077